Anthocyanins are natural water-soluble pigments that are important in plants because they
endow a variety of colors to vegetative tissues and reproductive plant organs, mainly …

Pigments are present in all living matter and provide attractive colors and play basic roles in
the development of organisms. Human beings, like most animals, come in contact with their …

Polyploidy is a prominent process in plants and has been significant in the evolutionary
history of vertebrates and other eukaryotes. In plants, interdisciplinary approaches …

Covering 1970–2001This review covers the functionally diverse type III polyketide synthase
(PKS) superfamily of plant and bacterial biosynthetic enzymes, from the discovery of …

We analyzed sequence variation for chalcone synthase (Chs) and alcohol dehydrogenase
(Adh) loci in 28 species in the genera Arabidopsis and Arabis and related taxa from tribe …

It has long been suspected that maize is the product of an historical tetraploid event. Several
observations support this possibility, including the fact that the maize genome contains …

Phenolic secondary metabolites are only produced by plants wherein they play important
roles in both biotic and abiotic defense in seed plants as well as being potentially important …

This unique volume combines discussion of plant evolution with that of crop origins. The first
edition was published in 1992 by Prentice-Hall, and has now been fully revised to reflect …

Plants produce hundreds of thousands of small molecules known as specialized
metabolites, many of which are of economic and ecological importance. This remarkable …

Covering: the literature up to April 2005The focus of this review is to highlight the structure,
bioactivity and biosynthesis of naturally occurring aryl-C-glycosides. General synthetic …