The coffee plant Coffea spp. offers much more than the well-known drink made from the
roasted coffee bean. During its cultivation and production, a wide variety of by-products are …

▪ Abstract Recent advances in the cell, developmental, and molecular biology of alkaloid
biosynthesis have heightened our appreciation for the complexity and importance of plant …

S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet or SAM) is a substrate in numerous enzyme-catalyzed
reactions. It not only provides methyl groups in many biological methylations, but also acts …

Caffeine, a purine alkaloid, is a key component of many popular drinks, most notably tea and
coffee, yet most plant scientists know little about its biochemistry and molecular biology. A …

Coffee leaves have a long history for use as ethnomedicine and tea beverage by locals from
countries where coffee plants grow. Recently, attentions have been paid to their health …

The demand for decaffeinated coffee is increasing because the stimulatory effects of caffeine
can adversely affect sensitive individuals by triggering palpitations, increased blood …

The immense chemical diversity of plant-derived secondary metabolites coupled with their
vast array of biological functions has seen this group of compounds attract considerable …

Psychoactive natural products play an integral role in the modern world. The tremendous
structural complexity displayed by such molecules confers diverse biological activities of …

Convergent evolution is a process that has occurred throughout the tree of life, but the
historical genetic and biochemical context promoting the repeated independent origins of a …

Caffeine is a metabolite derived from purine nucleotides, typically accounting for 2–5% of
the dry weight of tea and 1–2% of the dry weight of coffee. In the tea and coffee plants, the …