“…Several reviews have also been published on the analysis (Hisiger and Jolicoeur, 2007), chemistry (O'Connor and Maresh, 2006), biosynthesis (El-Sayed and Verpoorte, 2007;Hedhili et al, 2007;LoyolaVargas et al, 2007;Oudin et al, 2007a), regulation (Memelink and Gantet, 2007), intra-cellular, inter-cellular and organ-specific compartmentation (Mahroug et al, 2007), plant cell culture-based production (Zhao and Verpoorte, 2007), biotechnological production (Zá rate and , functional genomics (Goossens and Rischer, 2007) and transport (Roytrakul and Verpoorte, 2007) of MIAs in C. roseus. Together, these reviews reflect the profusion of scientific achievements that highlight opium poppy and C. roseus as two of the most thoroughly investigated medicinal plants.…”