Terpenes and terpenoids are key natural compounds for plant defense, development, and
composition of plant oil. The synthesis and accumulation of a myriad of volatile terpenoid …

Rice bean is a less well known and underutilized legume crop that has proved to be highly
favourable due to its rich nutritional value in comparison with other members of the Vigna …

The increase of essential oils (EOs) demand in industrial and therapeutic sectors worldwide
requires urgent development of climate resilience mint plants. In view of this, scientists have …

From the prehistoric era until the publishing of the Compendium of Materia Medica and the
first scientific Nobel Prize in the Chinese mainland for Tu's discovery on anti-malarial tablets …

Chia (Salvia hispanica L.), now a popular superfood and a pseudocereal, is one of the
richest sources of dietary nutrients such as protein, fiber, and polyunsaturated fatty acids …

Terpenoids are a large diverse group of natural products which play important roles in plant
metabolic activities. Monoterpenoids are the main components of plant essential oils and the …

Distant species producing the same secondary metabolites is an interesting and common
phenomenon in nature. A classic example of this is scutellarein whose derivatives have …

Synthetic promoters may be designed using short cis‐regulatory elements (CREs) and core
promoter sequences for specific purposes. We identified novel conserved DNA motifs from …

Andrographis paniculata (Chinese name: Chuanxinlian) is an annual dicotyledonous
medicinal plant widely grown in China and Southeast Asia. The dried plant has a highly …

Main conclusion The first draft genome for a member of the genus Lavandula is described.
This 870 Mbp genome assembly is composed of over 688 Mbp of non-gap sequences …