Plants produce a myriad of structurally and functionally diverse metabolites that play many
different roles in plant growth and development and in plant response to continually …

Plants have been interacting with insects for several hundred million years, leading to
complex defense approaches against various insect feeding strategies. Some defenses are …

Plant metabolism underpins many traits of ecological and agronomic importance. Plants
produce numerous compounds to cope with their environments but the biosynthetic …

Plant natural products are of great value for agriculture, medicine and a wide range of other
industrial applications. The discovery of new plant natural product pathways is currently …

Genes in prokaryotic genomes are often arranged into clusters and co-transcribed into
polycistronic RNAs. Isolated examples of polycistronic RNAs were also reported in some …

Background Plants actively shape their associated microbial communities by synthesizing
bio-active substances. Plant secondary metabolites are known for their signaling and plant …

In bacteria, more than half of the genes in the genome are organized in operons. In contrast,
in eukaryotes, functionally related genes are usually dispersed across the genome. There …

Benzoxazinoids (BXDs) form a class of indole-derived specialized plant metabolites with
broad antimicrobial and antifeedant properties. Unlike most specialized metabolites, which …

The diterpenoid triepoxides triptolide and triptonide from Tripterygium wilfordii (thunder god
wine) exhibit unique bioactivities with potential uses in disease treatment and as a non …

Background Plants have evolved a panoply of specialized metabolites that increase their
environmental fitness. Two examples are caffeine, a purine psychotropic alkaloid, and …