Flavones: from biosynthesis to health benefits

N Jiang, AI Doseff, E Grotewold - Plants, 2016 - mdpi.com
Flavones correspond to a flavonoid subgroup that is widely distributed in the plants, and
which can be synthesized by different pathways, depending on whether they contain C-or O …

Non-volatile natural products in plant glandular trichomes: chemistry, biological activities and biosynthesis

Y Liu, SX Jing, SH Luo, SH Li - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1960s to end of August 2018 Plant glandular trichomes (GTs) are adaptive
structures that are well known as “phytochemical factories” due to their impressive capacity …

[HTML][HTML] The reference genome sequence of Scutellaria baicalensis provides insights into the evolution of wogonin biosynthesis

Q Zhao, J Yang, MY Cui, J Liu, Y Fang, M Yan, W Qiu… - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is important in Chinese traditional medicine where
preparations of dried roots," Huang Qin," are used for liver and lung complaints and as …

Methylation mediated by an anthocyanin, O-methyltransferase, is involved in purple flower coloration in Paeonia

H Du, J Wu, KX Ji, QY Zeng, MW Bhuiya… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Anthocyanins are major pigments in plants. Methylation plays a role in the diversity and
stability of anthocyanins. However, the contribution of anthocyanin methylation to flower …

Methoxylated flavones: occurrence, importance, biosynthesis

A Berim, DR Gang - Phytochemistry reviews, 2016 - Springer
Lipophilic flavones with several methoxyl residues occur in various clades of land plants,
from liverworts to core eudicots. Their chemodiversity is mediated by the manifold …

Characterization of a caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase-like enzyme involved in biosynthesis of polymethoxylated flavones in Citrus reticulata

X Liu, C Zhao, Q Gong, Y Wang, J Cao… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Polymethoxylated flavones (PMFs), which accumulate exclusively in fruit peel of citrus, play
important physiological and pharmacological roles but the genetic basis for the methylation …

De Novo Biosynthesis of Multiple Pinocembrin Derivatives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

X Liu, J Cheng, X Zhu, G Zhang, S Yang… - ACS synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pinocembrin derived flavones are the major bioactive compounds presented in the
Lamiaceae plants that have long been of interest due to their great pharmaceutical and …

Diversification of Chemical Structures of Methoxylated Flavonoids and Genes Encoding Flavonoid-O-Methyltransferases

Y Liu, AR Fernie, T Tohge - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The O-methylation of specialized metabolites in plants is a unique decoration that provides
structural and functional diversity of the metabolites with changes in chemical properties and …

Identification of a Unique Type of Isoflavone O-Methyltransferase, GmIOMT1, Based on Multi-Omics Analysis of Soybean under Biotic Stress

K Uchida, Y Sawada, K Ochiai, M Sato… - Plant and Cell …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Isoflavonoids are commonly found in leguminous plants. Glycitein is one of the isoflavones
produced by soybean. The genes encoding the enzymes in the isoflavone biosynthetic …

Two types of O‐methyltransferase are involved in biosynthesis of anticancer methoxylated 4′‐deoxyflavones in Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi

MY Cui, AR Lu, JX Li, J Liu, YM Fang… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is rich in specialized 4′‐deoxyflavones,
which are reported to have many health‐promoting properties. We assayed Scutellaria …