Research progress on bioreactors for plant isoprene / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Isoprenoid compounds, a kind of plant secondary metabolites, are widely distributed in nature. They play important roles not only in plant growth and development process, but also in the regulation of relationship between plants and environment. Besides its biological function, the isoprenoid compounds have great economic values in many fields, such as agriculture, medicine, chemical industry, and so on. However, the yield of many isoprenoid compounds with high ecnomic value in nature is very low, which limits the research and use of isoprenoid compounds. Now, using plant bioreactor to regulate the synthesis of isoprenoid compounds is a focus of life sciences, and there are many deep researches on synthesis and metabolic pathways of isoprenoid compounds, which could promote the isoprenoid compounds production technologies with plant bioreactor. At the same time, the development of these technologies bring more deep understanding of the isoprenoid compounds synthesis metabolic pathways. We reviewed the development of metabolic synthesis and regulation of isoprenoid compounds and research progress on bioreactor, which will provide a quick reference for isoprenoid compounds synthesis research.