Abiotic stressors such as extreme temperatures, drought, flood, light, salt, and heavy metals
alter biological diversity and crop production worldwide. Therefore, it is important to know …

Sterols are integral components of the membrane lipid bilayer and they are involved in many
processes occurring in plants, ranging from regulation of growth and development to stress …

Stilbenes are a small family of polyphenolic secondary metabolites that can be found in
several distantly related plant species. These compounds act as phytoalexins, playing a …

Plant sterols are important components of the cell membrane and lipid rafts, which play a
crucial role in various physiological and biochemical processes during development and …

Combined metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses were carried out with fig cultivar Green
Peel and its color mutant “Purple Peel.” Five and twenty-two metabolites were identified as …

To assess the interrelation between the change of metabolites and the change of fruit color,
we performed a combined metabolome and transcriptome analysis of the flesh in two …

Background Anthocyanins determinate the flower color of many plants. Tobacco is a model
plant for studying the molecular regulation of flower coloration. We investigated the …

Many aromatic plants, such as spearmint, produce valuable essential oils in specialized
structures called peltate glandular trichomes (PGT s). Understanding the regulatory …

Rising temperatures in most agricultural regions of the world are associated with a higher
incidence of extreme weather events such as heat waves. We performed an experiment to …

Exposure to solar radiation is a determining factor of grape composition. Flavonol synthesis
is upregulated by solar radiation leaving a fingerprint on flavonol profile. This study aimed to …