During their evolution, plants have acquired the ability to produce a huge variety of
compounds. Unlike the specialized metabolites that accumulate in limited numbers of …

Key message The importance and potential of the multi-purpose crop sorghum in global
food security have not yet been fully exploited, and the integration of the state-of-art …

With the recent development of genomic resources and high‐throughput phenotyping
platforms, the 21st century is primed for major breakthroughs in the discovery …

Allelopathy determines the dynamics of plant species in different environments.
Understanding this biological phenomenon could help to develop applications in both …

Polyketide synthases (PKSs) catalyze the sequential condensation of simple acetate units to
produce a large class of natural products, including pharmacologically valuable compounds …

The psychoactive and analgesic cannabinoids (eg Δ9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)) in
Cannabis sativa are formed from the short‐chain fatty acyl‐coenzyme A (CoA) precursor …

Accurate and reliable gene expression data from qPCR depends on stable reference gene
expression for potential gene functional analyses. In this study, 15 reference genes were …

Sorghum allelopathy has been reported in a series of field experiments following sorghum
establishment. In recent years, sorghum phytotoxicity and allelopathic interference also have …

There is controversy as to whether specific natural products play a role in directly mediating
antagonistic plant–plant interactions–that is, allelopathy. If proved to exist, such phenomena …

Background Agriculture is the single largest geo-engineering initiative that humans have
initiated on planet Earth, largely through the introduction of unprecedented amounts of …