Plant secondary metabolites as defense tools against herbivores for sustainable crop protection

PA Divekar, S Narayana, BA Divekar, R Kumar… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plants have evolved several adaptive strategies through physiological changes in response
to herbivore attacks. Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) are synthesized to provide …

Plant secondary metabolites as defenses, regulators, and primary metabolites: the blurred functional trichotomy

M Erb, DJ Kliebenstein - Plant physiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred
Functional Trichotomy | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …

[PDF][PDF] Metabolomics-centered mining of plant metabolic diversity and function: Past decade and future perspectives

S Shen, C Zhan, C Yang, AR Fernie, J Luo - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Plants are natural experts in organic synthesis, being able to generate large numbers of
specific metabolites with widely varying structures that help them adapt to variable survival …

Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis

Z Zhang, Y Liu, L Yuan, E Weber… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Allelopathy (ie chemical interactions between plants) is known to affect individual
performance, community structure and plant invasions. Yet, a quantitative synthesis is …

Natural product-based nanoformulations for cancer therapy: Opportunities and challenges

D Kashyap, HS Tuli, MB Yerer, A Sharma, K Sak… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Application of natural product-based nanoformulations for the treatment of different human
diseases, such as cancer, is an emerging field. The conventional cancer therapeutic …

Role of phenylpropanoids and flavonoids in plant resistance to pests and diseases

ML Ramaroson, C Koutouan, JJ Helesbeux, V Le Clerc… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phenylpropanoids and flavonoids are specialized metabolites frequently reported as
involved in plant defense to biotic or abiotic stresses. Their biosynthetic accumulation may …

Why do plants produce so many terpenoid compounds?

E Pichersky, RA Raguso - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
All plants synthesize a suite of several hundred terpenoid compounds with roles that include
phytohormones, protein modification reagents, anti‐oxidants, and more. Different plant …

Scutellaria baicalensis, the golden herb from the garden of Chinese medicinal plants

Q Zhao, XY Chen, C Martin - Science bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, or Chinese skullcap, has been widely used as a
medicinal plant in China for thousands of years, where the preparation from its roots is …

[PDF][PDF] The tea tree genome provides insights into tea flavor and independent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis

EH Xia, HB Zhang, J Sheng, K Li, QJ Zhang, C Kim… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Tea is the world's oldest and most popular caffeine-containing beverage with immense
economic, medicinal, and cultural importance. Here, we present the first high-quality …

Genome-wide prediction of metabolic enzymes, pathways, and gene clusters in plants

P Schläpfer, P Zhang, C Wang, T Kim, M Banf… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Plant metabolism underpins many traits of ecological and agronomic importance. Plants
produce numerous compounds to cope with their environments but the biosynthetic …