Natural products account for more than 50% of all small-molecule pharmaceutical agents
currently in clinical use. However, low availability often becomes problematic when a …

Covering: 2011–2022 The low amounts of terpenoids produced in plants and the difficulty in
synthesizing these complex structures have stimulated the production of terpenoid …

More than 70,000 different terpenoid structures are known so far; many of them offer highly
interesting applications as pharmaceuticals, flavors and fragrances, or biofuels. Extraction of …

There is an increasing demand for carotenoids due to their applications in the food, flavor,
pharmaceutical and feed industries, however, the extraction and synthesis of these …

Terpenoids, also called isoprenoids, are a large and highly diverse family of natural
products with important medical and industrial properties. However, a limited production of …

The past decades have seen an increasing interest in developing pathways to produce bio-
based chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass and organic waste as renewable resources …

Terpenoids are a group of largest natural products with important biological functions, and
their efficient biosynthesis is of particular importance to both academia and industry. As the …

Metabolism has long been considered as a relatively stiff set of biochemical reactions. This
somewhat outdated and dogmatic view has been challenged over the last years, as multiple …

Isoprenoids are a kind of natural product with various activities, but their plant extraction
suffers low concentration. The rapid development of synthetic biology offers a sustainable …

In plants, prenylation of aromatic compounds, such as (iso) flavonoids and stilbenoids, by
membrane-bound prenyltransferases (PTs), is an essential step in the biosynthesis of many …