Major lignans of sesame sesamin and sesamolin are benzodioxol--substituted furofurans.
Sesamol, sesaminol, its epimers, and episesamin are transformation products found in …

Alkaloids from plants are characterised by structural diversity and bioactivity, and maintain a
privileged position in both modern and traditional medicines. In recent years, there have …

Functionally similar to the tight junctions present in animal guts, plant roots have evolved a
lignified Casparian strip as an extracellular diffusion barrier in the endodermis to seal the …

The final step of lignin biosynthesis is the polymerization of monolignols in apoplastic cell
wall domains. In this process, monolignols secreted by lignifying cells, or occasionally …

The phenylpropanoid pathway in plants is responsible for the biosynthesis of a huge amount
of secondary metabolites derived from phenylalanine and tyrosine. Both flavonoids and …

Oxidative cyclizations are important transformations that occur widely during natural product
biosynthesis. The transformations from acyclic precursors to cyclized products can afford …

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 …

Natural products possess structural complexity, diversity and chirality with attractive
functions and biological activities that have significantly impacted drug discovery initiatives …

Since the dawn of the 20th century, the average life expectancy at birth has nearly doubled
due to advances in science and medicine. As medical records grew more reliable, it became …

Lignin, a phenolic polymer derived mainly from hydroxycinnamyl alcohols, is ubiquitously
present in tracheophytes. The development of lignin biosynthesis has been considered to be …