Crosstalk of Multi-Omics Platforms with Plants of Therapeutic Importance
Deepu Pandita,
Anu Pandita,
Shabir Hussain Wani,
Shaimaa A. M. Abdelmohsen,
Haifa A. Alyousef,
Ashraf M. M. Abdelbacki,
Mohamed A. Al-Yafrasi,
Fahed A. Al-Mana,
Hosam O. Elansary
Affiliations
Deepu Pandita
Government Department of School Education, Jammu 180001, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Anu Pandita
Vatsalya Clinic, Krishna Nagar, New Delhi 110051, Delhi, India
Shabir Hussain Wani
Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Khudwani Anantnag 192101, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Shaimaa A. M. Abdelmohsen
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 84428, Saudi Arabia
Haifa A. Alyousef
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 84428, Saudi Arabia
Ashraf M. M. Abdelbacki
Applied Studies and Community Service College, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed A. Al-Yafrasi
Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Fahed A. Al-Mana
Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Hosam O. Elansary
Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
From time immemorial, humans have exploited plants as a source of food and medicines. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded 21,000 plants with medicinal value out of 300,000 species available worldwide. The promising modern “multi-omics” platforms and tools have been proven as functional platforms able to endow us with comprehensive knowledge of the proteome, genome, transcriptome, and metabolome of medicinal plant systems so as to reveal the novel connected genetic (gene) pathways, proteins, regulator sequences and secondary metabolite (molecule) biosynthetic pathways of various drug and protein molecules from a variety of plants with therapeutic significance. This review paper endeavors to abridge the contemporary advancements in research areas of multi-omics and the information involved in decoding its prospective relevance to the utilization of plants with medicinal value in the present global scenario. The crosstalk of medicinal plants with genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics approaches will be discussed.
