Alkaloids from plants are characterised by structural diversity and bioactivity, and maintain a
privileged position in both modern and traditional medicines. In recent years, there have …

Complex diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders and cancer constitute a growing
public health problem due to the rising incidence and lack in effective therapies. Since …

Medicinal Natural Products, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide providing information
on all classes of natural products in medicine. It builds upon fundamental chemical …

Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a structurally diverse group of plant specialized
metabolites with a long history of investigation. Although the ecophysiological functions of …

Classic theory relates herbivore pressure to the ecology and evolution of plant defenses.
Here, we summarize current trends in the study of plant–herbivore interactions and how they …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Terrestrial biodiversity is dominated by plants and the herbivores that consume them, and
they are one of the major conduits of energy flow up to higher trophic levels. Here, we …

Covering: up to 2022 With the emergence of large amounts of omics data, computational
approaches for the identification of plant natural product biosynthetic pathways and their …

L-Tyrosine (Tyr) is an aromatic amino acid (AAA) required for protein synthesis in all
organisms, but synthesized de novo only in plants and microorganisms. In plants, Tyr also …

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 …