Covering: up to September 2020 Mushroom-forming fungi of the division Basidiomycota
have traditionally been recognised as prolific producers of structurally diverse and often …

Covering: September 1972 to December 2020 Explorations of complex symbioses have
often elucidated a plethora of previously undescribed chemical compounds that may serve …

Giant viruses are nonstandard viruses with large particles and genomes. While previous
studies have shown that their genomes contain various sequences of interest, their genes …

Covering: up to August 2023Terpenoids, which are widely distributed in animals, plants, and
microorganisms, are a large group of natural products with diverse structures and various …

Sesquiterpenes are common small-molecule natural products with a wide range of
promising applications and are biosynthesized by sesquiterpene synthase (STS) …

Lavender essential oil from the aerial parts of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. was analyzed by
GC-MS equipped with three capillary columns of different polarities, which were HP-1, HP-5 …

Macrotermitinae termites have farmed fungi in the genus Termitomyces as a food source for
millions of years. However, the biochemical mechanisms orchestrating this mutualistic …

β-Elemene is a primary bioactive compound derived from Curcuma wenyujin and has been
widely utilized as an anti-tumor agent for various types of cancer. Due to the inefficiency of …

Terpenoids constitute a structurally diverse group of natural products with wide applications
in the pharmaceutical, nutritional, flavor and fragrance industries. Fungi are known to …

This review summarises known sesquiterpenes whose biosyntheses proceed through the
intermediate germacrene A. First, the occurrence and biosynthesis of germacrene A in …