Key message This article describes the composition of root exudates, how these metabolites
are released to the rhizosphere and their importance in the recruitment of beneficial …

Plants have evolved a vast chemical cornucopia to support their sessile lifestyles. Man has
exploited this natural resource since Neolithic times and currently plant-derived chemicals …

Plants are the tremendous source for the discovery of new products with medicinal
importance in drug development. Today several distinct chemicals derived from plants are …

Plant cell and tissue cultures can be established routinely under sterile conditions from
explants, such as plant leaves, stems, roots, meristems etc for both the ways for …

Plants, marine organisms, and microorganisms have evolved complex chemical defense
and signaling systems that are designed to protect them from predators and provide other …

Abstract “Hairy root” systems, obtained by transforming plant tissues with the “natural genetic
engineer” Agrobacterium rhizogenes, have been known for more than three decades. To …

Plants are a remarkable source of high-value secondary metabolites with applications in
various domains. Plant cell and tissue culture techniques appear as environmentally friendly …

The chemical diversity of plant-derived natural products allows them to function in a
multitude of ways including flavor enhancers, agricultural chemicals, and importantly, human …

Plant natural products have been extensively exploited in food, medicine, flavor, cosmetic,
renewable fuel, and other industrial sectors. Synthetic biology has recently emerged as a …

Plants are regarded as resources to obtain various industrially important compounds such
as pharmaceutical, agrochemical and aromatic products which are produced in their roots …