The evolution of chemical complexity has been a major driver of plant diversification, with
novel compounds serving as key innovations. The species-rich mint family (Lamiaceae) …

Species within the mint family, Lamiaceae, are widely used for their culinary, cultural, and
medicinal properties due to production of a wide variety of specialized metabolites …

The spatial organization of genes within plant genomes can drive evolution of specialized
metabolic pathways. Terpenoids are important specialized metabolites in plants with diverse …

Members of the mint family (Lamiaceae) accumulate a wide variety of industrially and
medicinally relevant diterpenes. We recently sequenced leaf transcriptomes from 48 …

Countless reports describe the isolation and structural characterization of natural products,
yet this information remains disconnected and underutilized. Using a cheminformatics …

The laurel family within the Magnoliids has attracted attentions owing to its scents, variable
inflorescences, and controversial phylogenetic position. Here, we present a chromosome …

The aromatic shrub Lavandula angustifolia produces various volatile terpenoids that serve
as resources for essential oils and function in plant-insect communication. To better …

Plants are reservoirs of extreme chemical diversity, yet biosynthetic pathways remain
underexplored in the majority of taxa. Access to improved, inexpensive genomic and …

Plants produce a myriad of specialized metabolites to overcome their sessile habit and
combat biotic as well as abiotic stresses. Evolution has shaped the diversity of specialized …

Terpenoids are the largest class of plant secondary metabolites and have attracted
widespread interest. Salvia miltiorrhiza, belonging to the largest and most widely distributed …