Metabolomics and complementary techniques to investigate the plant phytochemical cosmos

H Tsugawa, A Rai, K Saito, R Nakabayashi - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Plants and their associated microbial communities are known to
produce millions of metabolites, a majority of which are still not characterized and are …

De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value

K Gasparini, J dos Reis Moreira, LEP Peres… - Current Opinion in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

Evolutionary history of plant metabolism

HA Maeda, AR Fernie - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Tremendous chemical diversity is the hallmark of plants and is supported by highly complex
biochemical machinery. Plant metabolic enzymes originated and were transferred from …

Incorporation of nitrogen in antinutritional Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis

D Grzech, SJ Smit, RM Alam, M Boccia… - Nature Chemical …, 2025 - nature.com
Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are specialized metabolites produced by hundreds of
Solanum species including food crops, such as tomato, potato and eggplant. Unlike true …

A century of studying plant secondary metabolism—from “what?” to “where, how, and why?”

RA Dixon, AJ Dickinson - Plant Physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Over the past century, early advances in understanding the identity of the chemicals that
collectively form a living plant have led scientists to deeper investigations exploring where …

Solanum steroidal glycoalkaloids: structural diversity, biological activities, and biosynthesis

DK Zhao, Y Zhao, SY Chen, EJ Kennelly - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 1 October 2020 Solanum steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGA), characterized by
nitrogenous steroidal aglycone and glycoside residues, mainly occur in the Solanum …

Tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca) cuticular wax composition is essential for leaf retention during drought, facilitating a speedy recovery following rewatering

B Negin, S Hen‐Avivi, E Almekias‐Siegl… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of extensive study, the role of cuticular lipids in sustaining plant fitness is
far from being understood. We utilized genome‐edited tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca) to …

Plant metabolic gene clusters: evolution, organization, and their applications in synthetic biology

R Bharadwaj, SR Kumar, A Sharma… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plants are a remarkable source of high-value specialized metabolites having significant
physiological and ecological functions. Genes responsible for synthesizing specialized …

Steroidal scaffold decorations in Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis

R Lucier, MO Kamileen, Y Nakamura, S Serediuk… - Molecular Plant, 2024 - cell.com
Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are specialized metabolites produced by hundreds of
Solanum species, including important vegetable crops such as tomato, potato, and eggplant …

ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 regulates steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis and fungal tolerance in tomato

H Sinha, RS Kumar, T Datta, D Singh… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is rich in nutrients and has been an important target for
enhancing the accumulation of various metabolites. Tomato also contains cholesterol …