Pinosylvin (3, 5-dihydroxy-trans-stilbene), a natural pre-infectious stilbenoid toxin, is a
terpenoid polyphenol compound principally found in the Vitaceae family in the heartwood of …

Lignin is the most affluent natural aromatic biopolymer on the earth, which is the promising
renewable source for valuable products to promote the sustainability of biorefinery …

Plants synthesize several thousand different polyphenols of which many have the potential
to aid in preventing or treating cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases …

The very well-known bioactive natural product, resveratrol (3, 5, 4′-trihydroxystilbene), is a
highly studied secondary metabolite produced by several plants, particularly grapes …

Aromatic polyketides are natural polyphenolic compounds with a broad spectrum of
pharmacological activities. Production of those metabolites in the model organisms …

Curcuminoids are well-known for their therapeutic properties. However, their extraction from
natural sources is environmentally unfriendly, expensive and limited by seasonal variability …

Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL, EC 4.3. 1.24) catalyzes the deamination of
phenylalanine to cinnamate and ammonia, the first step of the phenylpropanoid pathway …

Cinnamic acid (CA) and its hydroxy-derivatives are aromatic building blocks whose
structural peculiarities (unsaturation, hydroxylic and/or carboxylic groups) have driven them …

Resveratrol, a bioactive natural product found in many plants, is a secondary metabolite and
has attracted much attention in the medicine and health care products fields due to its …

In the 1950s, the idea of a single harmonized list of food additives for the European Union
arose. Already in 1962, the E-classification system, a robust food safety system intended to …