Vertical farming: The only way is up?

T Van Gerrewey, N Boon, D Geelen - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vertical farming is on its way to becoming an addition to conventional agricultural practices,
improving sustainable food production for the growing world population under increasing …

Plant glandular trichomes: natural cell factories of high biotechnological interest

A Huchelmann, M Boutry, C Hachez - Plant physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Multicellular glandular trichomes are epidermal outgrowths characterized by the presence of
a head made of cells that have the ability to secrete or store large quantities of specialized …

Rhizosphere microbiome mediates systemic root metabolite exudation by root-to-root signaling

E Korenblum, Y Dong, J Szymanski… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial communities associated with roots confer specific functions to their hosts, thereby
modulating plant growth, health, and productivity. Yet, seminal questions remain largely …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances of functional phytochemicals in Nicotiana plant and related potential value of tobacco processing waste: A review

X Zou, BK Amrit, T Abu-Izneid, A Aziz, P Devnath… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tobacco is grown in large quantities worldwide as a widely distributed commercial crop.
From the harvest of the field to the process into the final product, a series of procedures …

Endogenous plant metabolites against insects

RWJ Kortbeek, M van der Gragt, PM Bleeker - European Journal of Plant …, 2019 - Springer
Herbivorous insects are responsible for large losses to agriculture through feeding damage
itself but also by vectoring pathogens such as viruses. Plants have evolved various …

Plant–arthropod interactions: who is the winner?

E Stahl, O Hilfiker, P Reymond - The Plant Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivorous arthropods have interacted with plants for millions of years. During feeding they
release chemical cues that allow plants to detect the attack and mount an efficient defense …

Evolutionary routes to biochemical innovation revealed by integrative analysis of a plant-defense related specialized metabolic pathway

GD Moghe, BJ Leong, SM Hurney, A Daniel Jones… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The diversity of life on Earth is a result of continual innovations in molecular networks
influencing morphology and physiology. Plant specialized metabolism produces hundreds …

Non-volatile natural products in plant glandular trichomes: chemistry, biological activities and biosynthesis

Y Liu, SX Jing, SH Luo, SH Li - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1960s to end of August 2018 Plant glandular trichomes (GTs) are adaptive
structures that are well known as “phytochemical factories” due to their impressive capacity …

Tomato root specialized metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence within a biosynthetic gene cluster

RE Kerwin, JE Hart, PD Fiesel, YR Lou, P Fan… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Tremendous plant metabolic diversity arises from phylogenetically restricted specialized
metabolic pathways. Specialized metabolites are synthesized in dedicated cells or tissues …

Tip of the trichome: evolution of acylsugar metabolic diversity in Solanaceae

P Fan, BJ Leong, RL Last - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Solanaceae glandular trichomes produce structurally diverse insecticidal
acylsugars.•Diversity is achieved by enzyme promiscuity and core metabolic enzyme …