Flavonoids are by far the largest class of polyphenols with huge structural and functional
diversity. However, the mystery regarding the exact evolutionary pressures which lead to the …

Continuous cropping (CC) is a common practice in agriculture, and usually causes serious
economic losses due to soil degeneration, decreased crop yield and quality, and increased …

The agriGO platform, which has been serving the scientific community for> 10 years,
specifically focuses on gene ontology (GO) enrichment analyses of plant and agricultural …

Tanshinones are the bioactive nor-diterpenoid constituents of the Chinese medicinal herb
Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza). These groups of chemicals have the characteristic furan D …

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge is an herb rich in bioactive tanshinone and salvianolic acid
compounds. It is primarily used as an effective medicine for treating cardiovascular and …

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is important in Chinese traditional medicine where
preparations of dried roots," Huang Qin," are used for liver and lung complaints and as …

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

CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful genome editing tool that has been extensively used in model
plants and crops, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, wheat, and soybean. Here, we report …

Abstract The CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)/Cas9
(CRISPR-associated) system is a powerful genome editing tool that has been used in many …

The widely cultivated medicinal and ornamental plant sage (Salvia officinalis L.) is an
evergreen shrub of the Lamiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean. We assembled a …