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 …

Allelopathy (ie chemical interactions between plants) is known to affect individual
performance, community structure and plant invasions. Yet, a quantitative synthesis is …

Plants produce a huge array of metabolites, far more than those produced by most other
organisms. Unraveling this diversity and its underlying genetic variation has attracted …

Tea is the world's oldest and most popular caffeine-containing beverage with immense
economic, medicinal, and cultural importance. Here, we present the first high-quality …

The purine alkaloid caffeine is the most widely consumed psychostimulant drug in the world
and has multiple beneficial pharmacological activities, for example, in neurodegenerative …

Covering: up to 2021 Plants and their associated microbial communities are known to
produce millions of metabolites, a majority of which are still not characterized and are …

The monophyletic group of embryophytes (land plants) stands out among photosynthetic
eukaryotes: they are the sole constituents of the macroscopic flora on land. In their entirety …

Tremendous chemical diversity is the hallmark of plants and is supported by highly complex
biochemical machinery. Plant metabolic enzymes originated and were transferred from …

Benzoxazinoids (BXDs) form a class of indole-derived specialized plant metabolites with
broad antimicrobial and antifeedant properties. Unlike most specialized metabolites, which …

Background Plants have evolved a panoply of specialized metabolites that increase their
environmental fitness. Two examples are caffeine, a purine psychotropic alkaloid, and …