Plants produce a variety of natural products with promising biological activities, such as the
phenylpropanoids resveratrol and curcumin. While these molecules are naturally assembled …

Biological synthesis of plant secondary metabolites has attracted increasing attention due to
their proven or assumed beneficial properties and health-promoting effects …

One of the approaches of combinatorial biosynthesis is combining genes from different
organisms and designing a new set of gene clusters to produce bioactive compounds …

Natural products have been attracting much interest around the world for their diverse
applications, especially in drug and food industries. Plants have been a major source of …

Highlights•Terpenoids are a vast and diverse class of compounds with applications in both
the industrial and human health spaces.•Computational biology and gene discovery enable …

Natural products produced by microorganisms and plants are a major resource of
antibacterial and anticancer drugs as well as industrially useful compounds. However, the …

Combinatorial biosynthesis includes an approach in which genes from different organisms
are assembled to design and construct an artificial gene cluster for production of bioactive …

Microorganisms and plants synthesize a tremendous diversity of chemical compounds. For
centuries, these compounds have been used as medicines, foods and other useful …

Natural products are widely employed in our daily lives as food additives, pharmaceuticals,
nutraceuticals, and cosmetic ingredients, among others. However, their supply has often …

Reconstruction of highly efficient biosynthesis pathways is essential for the production of
valuable plant secondary metabolites in recombinant microorganisms. In order to improve …