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Essential oil production: relationship with abundance of glandular trichomes in aerial surface of plants

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The terpenoids, or isoprenoids, are a large family of natural products that are best known as constituents of the essential oils in plants. Because of their pleasant flavor and aromatic properties, essential oils have an economic importance in perfumery, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and various other industries. However, expression profiles of regulatory genes in essential oil production have not been dissected entirely, which may be an interesting topic of future research. In this report, we review recent studies on isoprenoids biosynthesis in plants. We also discuss the progress of our recent research activities on isoprenoid studies.

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Grants for this work supported to Soheil Mahmoud from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Investment Agriculture Foundation of British Columbia, Western Economic Diversification Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, and UBC Okanagan.

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    Kamal K. Biswas, Adam J. Foster & Theingi Aung

  2. Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada

    Soheil S. Mahmoud

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Biswas, K.K., Foster, A.J., Aung, T. et al. Essential oil production: relationship with abundance of glandular trichomes in aerial surface of plants. Acta Physiol Plant 31, 13–19 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-008-0214-y

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