Plant carotenoids are a family of pigments that participate in light harvesting and are
essential for photoprotection against excess light. Furthermore, they act as precursors for the …

Highlights•Plants use MVA and MEP pathways to produce the common precursors of all
isoprenoids.•The two pathways are physically separated but coordinated at several …

We report a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly and analysis of the carrot (Daucus
carota) genome, the first sequenced genome to include a comparative evolutionary analysis …

Terpenoids are the largest class of plant secondary metabolites and have attracted
widespread interest. Salvia miltiorrhiza, belonging to the largest and most widely distributed …

Background Recent reports suggest that vitamin B 1 (thiamine) participates in the processes
underlying plant adaptations to certain types of abiotic and biotic stress, mainly oxidative …

Insect damage to plants is known to up-regulate defense and down-regulate growth
processes. While there are frequent reports about up-regulation of defense signaling and …

The carotenoid fucoxanthin found in the Phaeophyceae and Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) is
an antioxidative agent used as a nutraceutical for humans. In algae, terpenoids (including …

Abstract In 2010, when the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts
(NAABB) consortium began, little was known about the molecular basis of algal biomass or …

Background Many fruits, including watermelon, are proficient in carotenoid accumulation
during ripening. While most genes encoding steps in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway …

Deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase (DXS) is the first rate-limiting enzyme involved in
the 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway for terpenoids biosynthesis. Up to …