FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USING SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES
Keywords:
Metabolomics, Genomics and Epigenomics, BioinformaticsAbstract
Plant derived medicine is an important source of life saving drugs, but the genome information of most important medicinal plants is still unavailable. The need of the hour is to identify more functional genes and enzymes that control secondary metabolite production in medical plants, develop new methods for systematics, engineer resistance to number of biotic and abiotic stresses, and develop new conservation strategies, more genomics, proteomics and metabolomics information needs to be produced. In this review, a brief overview of various omic technologies and its applications to medicinal and aromatic plants are discussed.
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