What is the metabolic pathway of luciferin in plants? Which enzymes involved in the biosynthetic pathway?

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Seied Mehdi Miri

Dear Dr. Roughani

Please see attached file and following link.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US7663022.pdf

Also, on the link below, a similar question is posted on the researchgate, that you can use their comments or contact them for more information.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Have_there_been_any_bioluminescent_plants_created