Background Flavonoids are specialized metabolites with numerous biological functions in
stress response and reproduction of plants. Flavones are one subgroup that is produced by …

The role of flavonoids as the major red, blue, and purple pigments in plants has gained
these secondary products a great deal of attention over the years. From the first description …

Wogonin and baicalein are bioactive flavones in the popular Chinese herbal remedy Huang-
Qin (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi). These specialized flavones lack a 4′-hydroxyl group …

There is no doubt that among the large number of natural products of plant origin, debatably
called secondary metabolites because their importance to the ecophysiology of the …

Isoflavonoids are distributed predominantly in leguminous plants and play critical roles in
plant physiology. A cytochrome P450 (P450), 2-hydroxyisoflavanone synthase, is the key …

The enzymatic synthesis of polymethylated flavonol glucosides in Chrysosplenium
americanum is catalysed by a number of distinct, position-specific O-methyltransferases and …

This comprehensive review discusses the biosynthesis and catabolism of flavonoids and
their regulation in plants. This interesting work approaches the subject matter from both a …

Flavonoids represent one of the largest and most studied classes of phenylpropanoid-
derived plant specialized metabolites, with an estimated 10,000 different members …

Flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) are utilized as
coenzymes in many biochemical reduction-oxidation reactions owing to the ability of the …

Dihydroflavonol-4-reductase (DFR) is a key enzyme in the reduction of dihydroflavonols to
leucoanthocyanidins in both anthocyanin biosynthesis and proanthocyanidin accumulation …