[HTML][HTML] The scaffold-forming steps of plant alkaloid biosynthesis

BR Lichman - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Alkaloids from plants are characterised by structural diversity and bioactivity, and maintain a
privileged position in both modern and traditional medicines. In recent years, there have …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolomics and complementary techniques to investigate the plant phytochemical cosmos

H Tsugawa, A Rai, K Saito, R Nakabayashi - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Plants and their associated microbial communities are known to
produce millions of metabolites, a majority of which are still not characterized and are …

[PDF][PDF] A route to de novo domestication of wild allotetraploid rice

H Yu, T Lin, X Meng, H Du, J Zhang, G Liu, M Chen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cultivated rice varieties are all diploid, and polyploidization of rice has long been desired
because of its advantages in genome buffering, vigorousness, and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell multi-omics in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus

C Li, JC Wood, AH Vu, JP Hamilton… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in omics technologies now permit the generation of highly contiguous genome
assemblies, detection of transcripts and metabolites at the level of single cells and high …

[HTML][HTML] Chromosome-level genome assembly of bunching onion illuminates genome evolution and flavor formation in Allium crops

N Liao, Z Hu, J Miao, X Hu, X Lyu, H Fang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Allium genus is cultivated globally as vegetables, condiments, or medicinal plants and
is characterized by large genomes and strong pungency. However, the genome evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Chromosome-level genome assembly of Ophiorrhiza pumila reveals the evolution of camptothecin biosynthesis

A Rai, H Hirakawa, R Nakabayashi, S Kikuchi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Plant genomes remain highly fragmented and are often characterized by hundreds to
thousands of assembly gaps. Here, we report chromosome-level reference and phased …

[PDF][PDF] The sage genome provides insight into the evolutionary dynamics of diterpene biosynthesis gene cluster in plants

CY Li, L Yang, Y Liu, ZG Xu, J Gao, YB Huang, JJ Xu… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
The widely cultivated medicinal and ornamental plant sage (Salvia officinalis L.) is an
evergreen shrub of the Lamiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean. We assembled a …

[HTML][HTML] Plant biosynthetic gene clusters in the context of metabolic evolution

SJ Smit, BR Lichman - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2022 Plants produce a wide range of structurally and biosynthetically
diverse natural products to interact with their environment. These specialised metabolites …

Multiomics analyses of two Leonurus species illuminate leonurine biosynthesis and its evolution

P Li, MX Yan, P Liu, DJ Yang, ZK He, Y Gao, Y Jiang… - Molecular Plant, 2024 - cell.com
The Lamiaceae family is renowned for its terpenoid-based medicinal components, but
Leonurus, which has traditional medicinal uses, stands out for its alkaloid-rich composition …

Linking a gene cluster to atranorin, a major cortical substance of lichens, through genetic dereplication and heterologous expression

W Kim, R Liu, S Woo, KB Kang, H Park, YH Yu, HH Ha… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The depside and depsidone series compounds of polyketide origin accumulate in the
cortical or medullary layers of lichen thalli. Despite the taxonomic and ecological …