Plant specialized terpenoids are natural products that have no obvious role in growth and
development, but play many important functional roles to improve the plant's overall fitness …

Plant diseases, caused by microbes, threaten world food, feed, and bioproduct security.
Plant resistance has not been effectively deployed to improve resistance in plants for lack of …

Covering: March 2010 to December 2020. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2011, 28, 705
This review summarizes the latest progress and perspectives on the structural classification …

Withania somnifera produces pharmacologically important triterpenoid withanolides that are
derived via phytosterol pathway; however, their biosynthesis and regulation remain to be …

Small RNAs (sRNAs), a class of regulatory non-coding RNAs around 20~ 30-nt long,
including small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs), are critical regulators …

Endophytes have been explored and found to perform an important role in plant health.
However, their effects on the host physiological function and disease management remain …

Fritillaria unibracteata is an endangered medicinal plant whose bulb has been used as a
Chinese herb to suppress cough, asthma and excessive phlegm for centuries. Steroidal …

Tissue specific biosynthesis of secondary metabolites is a distinguished feature of medicinal
plants. Withania somnifera, source of pharmaceutically important withanolides …

The medicinal properties of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) are attributed to triterpenoid
steroidal lactones, withanolides, which are proposed to be derived from phytosterol …

The medicinal plant sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) accumulates bioactive ursane‐and
oleanane‐type pentacyclic triterpenes (PCT s), ursolic acid and oleanolic acid, respectively …