Nowadays, much attention is paid to issues such as ecology and sustainability. Many
consumers choose “green cosmetics”, which are environmentally friendly creams, makeup …

The screening and testing of extracts against a variety of pharmacological targets in order to
benefit from the immense natural chemical diversity is a concern in many laboratories …

Plants have long been exploited as a sustainable source of food, flavors, agrochemicals,
colors, therapeutic proteins, bioactive compounds, and stem cell production. However, plant …

When exposed to salt, every plant takes up Na+ from the environment. Once in the symplast,
Na+ is distributed within cells and between different tissues and organs. There it can help to …

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated systems
have revolutionized genome engineering by facilitating a wide range of targeted DNA …

Abstract Natural rubber (NR, cis-1, 4-polyisoprene) is applied in over 50,000 products. It has
unique properties, which cannot be matched by synthetic rubber. The pará rubber tree …

Among potential climate change-adapted crops for future agriculture, quinoa (Chenopodium
quinoa), a facultative halophyte plant with exceptional nutritional properties, stands out as a …

The last decades witnessed a great demand of natural remedies. As a result, medicinal
plants have been increasingly cultivated on a commercial scale, but the yield, the productive …

During the last decade, targeted genome-editing technologies, especially clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) …

Simple Summary Flavonoids are natural compounds in plants. They play a critical role in
plant growth and pathogen defense. Due to their health benefits, flavonoids have gained …