Spoilage and mycotoxin contamination of fruits cause significant economic losses and food
safety issues. Synthetic chemical fungicide treatment as primary postharvest management …

Background Indole alkaloids are very promising for potential therapeutic purposes and
appear to be particularly effective against respiratory diseases. Several experimental studies …

Catharanthine can be coupled with vindoline to synthesize vinblastine and vincristine, which
have been used clinically as potent anticancer drugs. However, the structural complexity …

During the whole lifespan from seedling to the mature stage, the plant produces a range of
complex compounds usually known as Secondary Metabolites (SMs) for their cellular and …

Yeast cell factories have been increasingly employed for producing plant‐derived natural
products. Unfortunately, the stability of plant natural product biosynthetic pathway genes …

Thousands of known alkaloids contain a nitrogen (N) heterocycle. While five-, six-and seven-
membered N-heterocycles (ie: pyrroles, imidazoles, indoles, pyridines and azepines and …

Indole alkaloids are an important group of natural products in the plant kingdom for their
diversity structures and significant biological effects on human health. The genus Melodinus …

Contrary to the biosynthetic pathways of many terpenoids, which are well characterized and
elucidated, their transport inside subcellular compartments and the secretion of reaction …

Infectious diseases caused by various nosocomial microorganisms affect worldwide both
immunocompromised and relatively healthy persons. Bacteria and fungi have different tools …

The first asymmetric total synthesis of the monoterpenoid indole alkaloid arboduridine has
been accomplished. The tricyclic A/B/D ring system was constructed by an enantioselective …