A bio-based economy has the potential to provide sustainable substitutes for petroleum-
based products and new chemical building blocks for advanced materials. We previously …

Terpenoids derived from plant material are widely applied in the flavor and fragrance
industry. Traditional extraction methods are unsustainable, but microbial synthesis offers a …

Highlights•Terpenoids are a vast and diverse class of compounds with applications in both
the industrial and human health spaces.•Computational biology and gene discovery enable …

Monoterpenoids are an important class of natural products that are derived from the
condensation of two five‑carbon isoprene subunits. They are widely used for flavouring …

Miltiradiene is a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of many important natural diterpene
compounds with significant pharmacological activity, including triptolide, tanshinones …

Isoprenoids, also referred to as terpenes, are the most diverse class of natural products
appearing in a variety of natural sources, specifically in higher plants, and have a wide …

Terpenoids are the most diverse group of specialized metabolites with numerous
applications. Their biosynthesis is based on the five-carbon isoprene building block and, as …

Terpenoids are a diverse group of compounds with isoprene units as basic building blocks.
They are widely used in the food, feed, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries due to their …

Plant natural products (NPs) not only serve many functions in an organism's survivability but
also demonstrate important pharmacological activities. Isolation of NPs from native sources …

The metabolic engineering of natural products has begun to prosper in the past few years
due to genomic research and the discovery of biosynthetic genes. While the biosynthetic …