Improving medicinal plant cultivation through in-depth understanding of environmental, physiological, metabolic, and genetic constraints

Ricarda Jost; Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer

doi:10.1093/jxb/erae463

Improving medicinal plant cultivation through in-depth understanding of environmental, physiological, metabolic, and genetic constraints

J Exp Bot. 2025 Jan 1;76(1):1-4. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae463.

Authors

Ricarda Jost^{1

2}, Susanne Schilling³, Rainer Melzer³

Affiliations

¹ ARC Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3086, Australia.
² La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture & Food, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3086, Australia.
³ UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.

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Keywords: Amaryllidaceae; Cannabis sativa; Papaver somniferum; Taxus species; Alkaloids; diurnal regulation; galanthamine; glandular trichomes; hemp; insects; meristems; multi-purpose crops; nitrogen; paclitaxel; phosphorus; phytocannabinoids; plant defence; plant nutrient use; protected cropping; secondary metabolism; sex determination; tissue culture.