Insight into the progress on natural dyes: sources, structural features, health effects, challenges, and potential

N Li, Q Wang, J Zhou, S Li, J Liu, H Chen - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Dyes play an important role in food, medicine, textile, and other industries,
which make human life more colorful. With the increasing demand for food safety, the …

Review on the development and applications of medicinal plant genomes

QQ Cheng, Y Ouyang, ZY Tang, CC Lao… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the development of sequencing technology, the research on medicinal plants is no
longer limited to the aspects of chemistry, pharmacology, and pharmacodynamics, but …

3D printed white radish/potato gel with microcapsules: Color/flavor change induced by microwave-infrared heating

T Tang, M Zhang, AS Mujumdar, X Teng - Food Research International, 2022 - Elsevier
The feasibility of using microwave-infrared heating (MIR) to stimulate color/flavor changes of
3D-printed white radish and potato gels containing lipid-soluble natural pigment and …

Convergent evolution of plant specialized 1, 4-naphthoquinones: metabolism, trafficking, and resistance to their allelopathic effects

GW Meyer, MA Bahamon Naranjo… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Plant 1, 4-naphthoquinones encompass a class of specialized metabolites known
to mediate numerous plant–biotic interactions. This class of compounds also presents a …

Integrative analysis of the shikonin metabolic network identifies new gene connections and reveals evolutionary insight into shikonin biosynthesis

T Suttiyut, RP Auber, M Ghaste, CN Kane… - Horticulture …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Summary Plant specialized 1, 4-naphthoquinones present a remarkable case of convergent
evolution. Species across multiple discrete orders of vascular plants produce diverse 1, 4 …

Genome-Wide Comparison and Functional Characterization of HMGR Gene Family Associated with Shikonin Biosynthesis in Lithospermum erythrorhizon

X Wang, C Wang, M Yang, W Jie, A Fazal, J Fu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGR), as the rate-limiting enzyme in the
mevalonate pathway, is essential for the biosynthesis of shikonin in Lithospermum …

Glutamine metabolism mediates sensitivity to respiratory complex II inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia

A Roma, M Tcheng, N Ahmed, S Walker… - Molecular Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematologic malignancy metabolically dependent on
oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) activity. AML …

Diversity and pathobiology of an ilarvirus unexpectedly detected in diverse plants and global sequencing data

MPS Rivarez, C Faure, L Svanella-Dumas… - …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) and sequence mining tools revolutionized virus
detection and discovery in recent years, and implementing them with classical plant virology …

Shikonin and Alkannin inhibit ATP synthase and impede the cell growth in Escherichia coli

M Watson, T Saitis, R Shareef, C Harb… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Naturally occurring naphthoquinones, shikonin and alkannin, are important ingredients of
traditional Chinese medicine Zicao. These constituents are reported to have many …

The chromosome-level genome for Toxicodendron vernicifluum provides crucial insights into Anacardiaceae evolution and urushiol biosynthesis

G Bai, C Chen, C Zhao, T Zhou, D Li, T Zhou, W Li… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Stokes) FA Barkley) is an important tree with
economic, industrial, and medicinal values. Here, we generated the reference genome of T …