Plant-microbe interactions dynamically affect plant growth, health, and development. The
mechanisms underpinning these associations are—to a large extent—mediated by …

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 …

Plants protect themselves with a vast array of toxic secondary metabolites, yet most plants
serve as food for insects. The evolutionary processes that allow herbivorous insects to resist …

Anthocyanins are ubiquitous plant pigments used in a variety of technological applications.
Yet, after over a century of research, the penultimate biosynthetic step to anthocyanidins …

The ability of organisms and organic compounds to reduce metal ions and stabilize them
into nanoparticles (NPs) forms the basis of green synthesis. To date, synthesis of NPs from …

Over 8000 different flavonoids have been described and a considerable number of new
flavonoid structures are being elucidated every year. The advent of metabolomics alongside …

Lignin is a major component of secondarily thickened plant cell walls and is considered to
be the second most abundant biopolymer on the planet. At one point believed to be the …

Plants generate a wide variety of organic components during their different growth phases.
The majority of those compounds have been classified as primary and secondary …

Terrestrial plants have two to four times more ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter genes
than other organisms, including their ancestral microalgae. Recent studies found that plants …

Flavonoids are specialized metabolites largely widespread in plants where they play
numerous roles including defense and signaling under stress conditions. These compounds …