Plant-derived vitamins are of great interest because of their impact on human health. They
are essential for metabolism because of their redox chemistry and role as enzymatic …

Plants produce hundreds of thousands of small molecules known as specialized
metabolites, many of which are of economic and ecological importance. This remarkable …

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) synthesizes nicotine and related pyridine alkaloids in the root,
and their synthesis increases upon herbivory on the leaf via a jasmonate-mediated signaling …

Alkaloids represent an extensive group of nitrogen-containing secondary metabolites that
are widely distributed throughout the plant kingdom. The pyridine alkaloids of tobacco …

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is a widely cultivated crop of the genus Nicotiana. Due to
the highly addictive nature of tobacco products, tobacco smoking remains the leading cause …

In Arabidopsis, the MYC2-family basic helix–loop–helix transcription factors mediate
transcriptional regulation of jasmonate-responsive genes, and their transcriptional activities …

Transcription factors of the plant‐specific apetala2/ethylene response factor (AP2/ERF)
family control plant secondary metabolism, often as part of signalling cascades induced by …

Pyridine nucleotides are key redox carriers in the soluble phase of all living cells, and both
NAD and NADP play crucial roles in pro-oxidant and antioxidant metabolism. Recent data …

NAD is a ubiquitous coenzyme involved in oxidation-reduction reactions and is synthesized
by way of quinolinate. Animals and some bacteria synthesize quinolinate from tryptophan …

Biosynthesis of the alkaloid nicotine in Nicotiana species is induced by insect damage and
jasmonate application. To probe the transcriptional regulation of the nicotine pathway, we …