Lipid droplets, also known as oil bodies or lipid bodies, are plant organelles that
compartmentalize neutral lipids as a hydrophobic matrix covered by proteins embedded in a …

Plant natural products (PNPs) are specialized metabolites with diverse bioactivities. They
are extensively used in the pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical and food industries. PNPs are …

Squalene is an important triterpene with a wide range of applications. Given the growing
market demand for squalene, the development of microbial cell factories capable of …

In the last four decades, several researchers worldwide have routinely and meticulously
exercised cell culture experiments in two‐dimensional (2D) platforms. Using traditionally …

Plant natural products have been extensively exploited in food, medicine, flavor, cosmetic,
renewable fuel, and other industrial sectors. Synthetic biology has recently emerged as a …

Engineering microbes for the production of valuable natural products is often hindered by
the regulation of native competing metabolic networks in host. This is particularly evident in …

Intracellular lipid droplets are utilized for lipid storage and metabolism in organisms as
evolutionarily diverse as animals, fungi, plants, bacteria, and archaea. These lipid droplets …

In this glossary of plant cell structures, we asked experts to summarize a present-day view of
plant organelles and structures, including a discussion of outstanding questions. In the …

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 …

As an alternative to in vitro lipase dependent biotransformation and to traditional assembly
of pathways in cytoplasm, the present study focused on targeting lipase dependent …