The interactions of plants with environment and insects are bi-directional and dynamic.
Consequently, a myriad of mechanisms has evolved to engage organisms in different types …

Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) are vital for human health and constitute the skeletal
framework of many pharmaceutical drugs. Indeed, more than 25% of the existing drugs …

Whether flavonoids play significant antioxidant roles in plants challenged by photooxidative
stress of different origin has been largely debated over the last few decades. A critical review …

Climate is the main factor affecting grape and wine quality in Mediterranean viticulture.
Global warming provokes an increase in the accumulation of soluble solids in grapes …

Isoprene carries approximately half of the flux of non-methane volatile organic carbon
emitted to the atmosphere by the biosphere. Accurate representation of its oxidation rate and …

The notion that plants use specialized metabolism to protect against environmental stresses
needs to be experimentally proven by addressing the question of whether stress tolerance …

Plants synthesize an amazing diversity of volatile organic compounds (VOC s) that facilitate
interactions with their environment, from attracting pollinators and seed dispersers to …

Plants are exposed to any number of potentially adverse environmental conditions such as
water deficit, high salinity, extreme temperature, submergence, etc. These abiotic stresses …

During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

Nonenzymatic lipid oxidation is usually viewed as deleterious. But if this is the case, then
why does it occur so frequently in cells? Here we review the mechanisms of membrane …