Heavy metals is a collective term describing metals and metalloids with a density higher
than 5 g/cm3. Some of them are essential micronutrients; others do not play a positive role in …

Light intensity and temperature are primary environmental factors affecting the growth and
development of plants. Changes in their intensity, range and duration can lead to …

Carnosic acid, a phenolic diterpene specific to the Lamiaceae family, is highly abundant in
rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis). Despite numerous industrial and medicinal …

The seeds of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) have been an important source of nutrition for
thousands of years in Chinese and European cultures but, nowadays, in spite of the multiple …

Plants have evolved a plethora of mechanisms to circumvent the potential damaging effects
of living under low phosphorus availability in the soil. These mechanisms include different …

The upcoming climate change presents a great challenge for plant growth and development
being extremes temperatures among the major environmental limitations to crop …

Phytol, the prenyl side chain of chlorophyll, is derived from geranylgeraniol by reduction of
three double bonds. Recent results demonstrated that the conversion of geranylgeraniol to …

Intracellular lipid droplets are utilized for lipid storage and metabolism in organisms as
evolutionarily diverse as animals, fungi, plants, bacteria, and archaea. These lipid droplets …

Free and esterified (bound) tocopherols, tocotrienols and other tocochromanol-related
compounds, often referred to “tocols”, are lipophilic antioxidants of great importance for …

Vitamin E, also known as tocochromanol, is a lipid-soluble antioxidant that can only be
produced by photosynthetic organisms in nature. Vitamin E is not only essential in human …