Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) are the largest enzyme family involved in NADPH-and/or O2-
dependent hydroxylation reactions across all the domains of life. In plants and animals …

The processes underlying lignification, which for many years have been the near-exclusive
purview of chemists and biochemists, have more recently been approached using both …

Advances in the flavonoid field have been nothing short of spectacular over the last 20
years. While the medical field has noticed flavonoids for their potential antioxidant …

There is growing recognition that many phenolic secondary metabolites present in foodstuffs
may possibly exert beneficial effects on human health. This may to some degree be …

Lignin is a polymer of aromatic subunits usually derived from phenylalanine. It serves as a
matrix around the polysaccharide components of some plant cell walls, providing additional …

Isoflavones are ecophysiologically active secondary metabolites derived from the
phenylpropanoid pathway. They were mostly found in leguminous plants, especially in the …

MYB-related transcription factors are known to regulate different branches of flavonoid
metabolism in plants and are believed to play wider roles in the regulation of …

Abstract Coumarins (1, 2-benzopyrones) are ubiquitously found in higher plants where they
originate from the phenylpropanoid pathway. They contribute essentially to the persistence …

Plant cytochromes P450 (P450s) catalyze a wide variety of monooxygenation/hydroxylation
reactions in primary and secondary metabolism. The number of P450 genes in plant …

Data mining methods have been used to identify 356 Cyt P450 genes and 99 related
pseudogenes in the rice (Oryza sativa) genome using sequence information available from …