Phenylpropanoids, the largest class of natural products including flavonoids, anthocyanins,
monolignols and tannins perform multiple functions ranging from photosynthesis, nutrient …

Pathogens hitting the plant cell wall is the first impetus that triggers the phenylpropanoid
pathway for plant defense. The phenylpropanoid pathway bifurcates into the production of …

Phenylpropanoid-derived compounds represent a diverse family of secondary metabolites
that originate from phenylalanine. These compounds have roles in plant growth and …

MYB transcription factors (TFs), as one of the largest gene families in plants, play important
roles in multiple biological processes, such as plant growth and development, cell …

The expansion of gene families encoding regulatory proteins is typically associated with the
increase in complexity characteristic of multi‐cellular organisms. The MYB and basic helix …

Secondary walls are mainly composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses (xylan and
glucomannan) and lignin, and are deposited in some specialized cells, such as tracheary …

Lignin is an aromatic heteropolymer and the second most abundant plant biopolymer after
cellulose. It is deposited mostly in the secondary cell walls of vascular plants and is essential …

Because of the vast range of functions that phenylpropanoids possess, their synthesis
requires precise spatiotemporal coordination throughout plant development and in response …

MYB proteins comprise a large family of plant transcription factors, members of which
perform a variety of functions in plant biological processes. To date, no genome-wide …

Key message MdMYB16 forms homodimers and directly inhibits anthocyanin synthesis via
its C-terminal EAR repressor. It weakened the inhibitory effect of MdMYB16 on anthocyanin …