The lignin biosynthetic pathway has been studied for more than a century but has
undergone major revisions over the past decade. Significant progress has been made in …

Abstract Zhonglin Mou (Corresponding author) The small phenolic compound salicylic acid
(SA) plays an important regulatory role in multiple physiological processes including plant …

Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) has a crucial role in secondary phenylpropanoid
metabolism and is one of the most extensively studied enzymes with respect to plant …

Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) catalyzes the first step of the phenylpropanoid
pathway, which produces precursors to a variety of important secondary metabolites …

Phenolic secondary metabolites play an important role in plant‐derived food quality, as they
affect quality characteristics such as appearance, flavour and health‐promoting properties …

The processes underlying lignification, which for many years have been the near-exclusive
purview of chemists and biochemists, have more recently been approached using both …

Lignification of cell wall appositions is a conserved basal defense mechanism in the plant
innate immune response. However, the genetic pathway controlling defense-induced …

Adaptive antiviral immunity in plants is an RNA-based mechanism in which small RNAs
derived from both strands of the viral RNA are guides for an Argonaute (AGO) nuclease. The …

Lignin is a polymer of aromatic subunits usually derived from phenylalanine. It serves as a
matrix around the polysaccharide components of some plant cell walls, providing additional …

Salicylic acid (SA) is an important signal molecule in plants. Two pathways of SA
biosynthesis have been proposed in plants. Biochemical studies using isotope feeding have …