Natural products, a chemically and structurally diverse class of molecules, possess a wide
spectrum of biological activities, have been used therapeutically for millennia, and have …

Highlights•Terpenoids are a vast and diverse class of compounds with applications in both
the industrial and human health spaces.•Computational biology and gene discovery enable …

Photosynthetic microalgae harbor enormous potential as light-driven green-cell factories for
sustainable bio-production of a range of natural and heterologous products such as …

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes play crucial roles during the evolution and diversification
of ancestral monocellular eukaryotes into multicellular eukaryotic organisms due to their …

The growing preference for producing cytochrome P450-mediated natural products in
microbial systems stems from the challenging nature of the organic chemistry approaches …

Coumarins and furanocoumarins are plant secondary metabolites with known biological
activities. As they are present in low amounts in plants, their heterologous production …

Production of plant secondary metabolites in engineered microorganisms provides a
scalable and sustainable alternative to their sourcing from nature or through chemical …

Several plant triterpenoids have valuable pharmaceutical properties, but their production
and usage is limited since extraction from plants can burden natural resources, and result in …

Photosynthetic microalgae like Nannochloropsis hold enormous potential as sustainable,
light‐driven biofactories for the production of high‐value natural products such as …

Strigolactones (SLs) are methylbutenolide molecules derived from β-carotene through an
intermediate carlactonoic acid (CLA). Canonical SLs act as signals to microbes and plants …