Botanical sources, chemistry, analysis, and biological activity of furanocoumarins of pharmaceutical interest

R Bruni, D Barreca, M Protti, V Brighenti, L Righetti… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
The aim of this work is to provide a critical review of plant furanocoumarins from different
points of view, including their chemistry and biosynthetic pathways to their extraction …

Root-secreted coumarins and the microbiota interact to improve iron nutrition in Arabidopsis

CJ Harbort, M Hashimoto, H Inoue, Y Niu, R Guan… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Plants benefit from associations with a diverse community of root-colonizing microbes.
Deciphering the mechanisms underpinning these beneficial services are of interest for …

Oxypeucedanin: Chemotaxonomy, isolation, and bioactivities

J Mottaghipisheh - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The present review comprehensively gathered phytochemical, bioactivity, and
pharmacokinetic reports on a linear furanocoumarin, namely oxypeucedanin …

A new P450 involved in the furanocoumarin pathway underlies a recent case of convergent evolution

C Villard, R Munakata, S Kitajima… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Furanocoumarins are phytoalexins often cited as an example to illustrate the arms race
between plants and herbivorous insects. They are distributed in a limited number of …

Convergent evolution of the UbiA prenyltransferase family underlies the independent acquisition of furanocoumarins in plants

R Munakata, S Kitajima, A Nuttens, K Tatsumi… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Furanocoumarins (FCs) are plant‐specialized metabolites with potent allelochemical
properties. The distribution of FCs is scattered with a chemotaxonomical tendency towards …

[HTML][HTML] How did plants evolve the prenylation of specialized phenolic metabolites by means of UbiA prenyltransferases?

R Munakata, K Yazaki - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Prenylated phenolics occur in over 4000 species in the plant kingdom, most of which are
known as specialized metabolites with high chemical diversity. Many of them have been …

Exposure in vitro to an Environmentally Isolated Strain TC09 of Cladosporium sphaerospermum Triggers Plant Growth Promotion, Early Flowering, and Fruit Yield …

ZT Li, WJ Janisiewicz, Z Liu, AM Callahan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A growing number of bacteria and fungi have been found to promote plant growth through
mutualistic interactions involving elements such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) …

A combination of elicitor and precursor enhances psoralen production in Psoralea corylifolia Linn. suspension cultures

G Hari, K Vadlapudi, PD Vijendra, J Rajashekar… - Industrial Crops and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Psoralen is a pharmaceutically important furanocoumarin produced by Psoralea corylifolia
Linn. A strategy for the enhanced production of psoralen has been developed using …

The CYP71AZ P450 subfamily: a driving factor for the diversification of coumarin biosynthesis in apiaceous plants

C Krieger, S Roselli, S Kellner-Thielmann… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The production of coumarins and furanocoumarins (FCs) in higher plants is widely
considered a model illustration of the adaptation of plants to their environment. In this report …

Convergent evolution leading to the appearance of furanocoumarins in citrus plants

M Limones-Mendez, A Dugrand-Judek, C Villard… - Plant Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Furanocoumarins are defense molecules mainly described in four plant families that are
phylogenetically distant. Molecular characterization of the biosynthetic pathway has been …