Higher plants produce a large variety of low-molecular weight secondary compounds.
Among them, nitrogen-containing alkaloids are the most biologically active and are often …

Plants produce a large variety of low-molecular-weight and specialized secondary
compounds. Among them, nitrogen-containing alkaloids are the most biologically active and …

Alkaloid Biogenesis Page 1 ALKALOID BIOGENESIS By RAY F . DAWSON. New York. N . Y
. CONTENTS I . Introduction ................................................... B . Physiological Functions of …

Plants produce a range of secondary metabolites primarily as defence molecules. A plant
has to invest considerable energy to synthesise alkaloids, and sometimes they are even …

Plants produce a large variety of secondary metabolites including alkaloids, glucosinolates,
terpenoids and phenylpropanoids. These compounds play key roles in plant–environment …

Plants produce unique natural products as a result of gene mutation and subsequent
adaptation of metabolic pathways to create new secondary metabolites. However, their …

With the successful application of molecular genetic methods to the plant alkaloid field, we
now have sophisticated tools at our disposal to study regulation of enzymatic biosynthesis …

Alkaloids constitute a very chemically diverse group of plant natural products. These
molecules, of which about 12,000 have been identified, share the common presence of a …

Characterization of many of the major gene families responsible for the generation of central
intermediates and for their decoration, together with the development of large genomics and …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on recent advances in the metabolic regulation
involved in the biosynthesis of six groups of alkaloids—benzylisoquinoline (BA) …