Medicinal plants are the main source of natural metabolites with specialised
pharmacological activities and have been widely examined by plant researchers. Numerous …

Medicinal plants represent a huge reservoir of secondary metabolites (SMs), substances
with significant pharmaceutical and industrial potential. However, obtaining secondary …

The WRKY transcription factors are a class of transcriptional regulators that are ubiquitous in
plants, wherein they play key roles in various physiological activities, including responses to …

Secondary metabolite (SM) production provides biotic and abiotic stress resistance and
enables plants to adapt to the environment. Biosynthesis of these metabolites involves a …

Protoplast-based engineering has become an important tool for basic plant molecular
biology research and developing genome-edited crops. Uncaria rhynchophylla is a …

Camptothecin (CPT) is an anticancer pentacyclic quinoline alkaloid widely used to treat
cancer patients worldwide. However, the biosynthetic pathway and transcriptional regulation …

WRKY transcription factors, as the largest gene family in higher plants, play an important
role in various biological processes including growth and development, regulation of …

The WRKY gene family plays important roles in plant growth and development, as well as in
the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum has high …

Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil, a traditional medicinal herb, is enriched with
several pharmacologically active terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs). At present, no method …

The basis of modern pharmacology is the human ability to exploit the production of
specialized metabolites from medical plants, for example, terpenoids, alkaloids, and …