Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Plant-derived natural products have long been considered a valuable source of lead
compounds for drug development. Natural extracts are usually composed of hundreds to …

Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

The screening and testing of extracts against a variety of pharmacological targets in order to
benefit from the immense natural chemical diversity is a concern in many laboratories …

Artemisia annua, commonly known as sweet wormwood or Qinghao, is a shrub native to
China and has long been used for medicinal purposes. A. annua is now cultivated globally …

Jasmonates (JAs) are signals in plant stress responses and development. One of the first
observed and prominent responses to JAs is the induction of biosynthesis of different groups …

Plant natural products (PNPs) are the main sources of drugs, food additives, and new
biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology. In the past two decades, the …

Plant natural products (PNPs) are specialized metabolites with diverse bioactivities. They
are extensively used in the pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical and food industries. PNPs are …

Highlights•Synthetic metabolic pathways to improve plant carbon efficiency.•Reducing
synthetic fertilizer usage in agriculture by optimizing plant nitrogen and phosphorous …

The central dogma (CD) of molecular biology is the transfer of genetic information from DNA
to RNA to protein. Major CD processes governing genetic flow include the cell cycle, DNA …