Senna tora is a widely used medicinal plant. Its health benefits have been attributed to the
large quantity of anthraquinones, but how they are made in plants remains a mystery. To …

Rhubarb is the collective name for various perennial plants from the genus Rheum L. and
the Polygonaceae family. They are one of the most ancient, commonly used, and important …

Key message Here, we report potential transcripts involved in the biosynthesis of therapeutic
metabolites in Swertia japonica, the first report of transcriptome assembly, and …

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen) is a medicinal plant of the Lamiaceae family, and its
dried roots have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine with hydrophilic phenolic …

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, also known as red sage or Danshen, is an important traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM) that has been used for thousands of years to treat cardiovascular …

Tanshinones and phenolic acids are crucial bioactive compounds biosynthesized in Salvia
miltiorrhiza. Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is an effective elicitor to enhance the production of …

Senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl.) is a world's natural laxative medicinal plant. Laxative
properties are due to sennosides (anthraquinone glycosides) natural products. However …

The first committed step in sterol biosynthesis in plants involves the cyclization of 2, 3‐
oxidosqualene by the oxidosqualene cyclase (OSC) enzyme cycloartenol synthase. 2, 3 …

Background Plant natural products have been co-opted for millennia by humans for various
uses such as flavor, fragrances, and medicines. These compounds often are only produced …

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, a perennial plant of Lamiaceae, accumulates abietane-type
diterpenoids of tanshinones in root, which have been used as traditional Chinese medicine …