Medicinal plants enter the single-cell multi-omics era

Trends Plant Sci. 2023 Nov;28(11):1205-1207. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.08.005. Epub 2023 Aug 23.

Abstract

Elucidating biosynthetic pathways of plant specialized metabolites is a tricky but essential task for the biotechnological production of plant drugs. In a new report, Li et al. used a single-cell multi-omics approach to provide an integrative view of the architecture and regulation of anticancer alkaloid routes in Madagascar periwinkle.