Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

Recent advances on the roles of flavonoids as plant protective molecules after UV and high light exposure

MLF Ferreyra, P Serra, P Casati - Physiologia plantarum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flavonoids are plant specialized metabolites that consist of one oxygenated and two
aromatic rings. Different flavonoids are grouped according to the oxidation degree of the …

The structure and function of major plant metabolite modifications

S Wang, S Alseekh, AR Fernie, J Luo - Molecular Plant, 2019 - cell.com
Plants produce a myriad of structurally and functionally diverse metabolites that play many
different roles in plant growth and development and in plant response to continually …

Current understanding of the pathways of flavonoid biosynthesis in model and crop plants

T Tohge, LP de Souza, AR Fernie - Journal of experimental …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Flavonoids are a signature class of secondary metabolites formed from a relatively simple
collection of scaffolds. They are extensively decorated by chemical reactions including …

A novel integrated method for large-scale detection, identification, and quantification of widely targeted metabolites: application in the study of rice metabolomics

W Chen, L Gong, Z Guo, W Wang, H Zhang, X Liu, S Yu… - Molecular plant, 2013 - cell.com
Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS)-based metabolomics has been
facilitated by the construction of MS 2 spectral tag (MS2T) library from the total scan ESI …

Conservation and diversification of flavonoid metabolism in the plant kingdom

W Wen, S Alseekh, AR Fernie - Current opinion in plant biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Flavonoids are by far the largest class of polyphenols with huge structural and functional
diversity. However, the mystery regarding the exact evolutionary pressures which lead to the …

Genome-wide association analyses provide genetic and biochemical insights into natural variation in rice metabolism

W Chen, Y Gao, W Xie, L Gong, K Lu, W Wang, Y Li… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Plant metabolites are important to world food security in terms of maintaining sustainable
yield and providing food with enriched phytonutrients. Here we report comprehensive …

Flavones: from biosynthesis to health benefits

N Jiang, AI Doseff, E Grotewold - Plants, 2016 - mdpi.com
Flavones correspond to a flavonoid subgroup that is widely distributed in the plants, and
which can be synthesized by different pathways, depending on whether they contain C-or O …

Metabolome-based genome-wide association study of maize kernel leads to novel biochemical insights

W Wen, D Li, X Li, Y Gao, W Li, H Li, J Liu, H Liu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Plants produce a variety of metabolites that have a critical role in growth and development.
Here we present a comprehensive study of maize metabolism, combining genetic …

Multi-level engineering facilitates the production of phenylpropanoid compounds in tomato

Y Zhang, E Butelli, S Alseekh, T Tohge… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Phenylpropanoids comprise an important class of plant secondary metabolites. A number of
transcription factors have been used to upregulate-specific branches of phenylpropanoid …