Plants produce a large variety of low-molecular-weight and specialized secondary
compounds. Among them, nitrogen-containing alkaloids are the most biologically active and …

Higher plants produce a large variety of low-molecular weight secondary compounds.
Among them, nitrogen-containing alkaloids are the most biologically active and are often …

Alkaloids represent a highly diverse group of compounds that are related only by the
occurrence of a nitrogen atom in a heterocyclic ring. Plants are estimated to produce …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on recent advances in the metabolic regulation
involved in the biosynthesis of six groups of alkaloids—benzylisoquinoline (BA) …

Plants produce a range of secondary metabolites primarily as defence molecules. A plant
has to invest considerable energy to synthesise alkaloids, and sometimes they are even …

Characterization of many of the major gene families responsible for the generation of central
intermediates and for their decoration, together with the development of large genomics and …

With respect to the biosynthesis of plant alkaloids, that of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs)
has been the most investigated at the molecular level. Previous investigations have shown …

Two centuries after the discovery of the first alkaloids, many enzymes involved in plant
alkaloid biosynthesis have been identified. Nevertheless, the biosynthetic pathways for most …

With the successful application of molecular genetic methods to the plant alkaloid field, we
now have sophisticated tools at our disposal to study regulation of enzymatic biosynthesis …

Alkaloids constitute a very chemically diverse group of plant natural products. These
molecules, of which about 12,000 have been identified, share the common presence of a …