In ethnopharmacology, and especially in traditional Chinese medicine, medicinal plants
have been used for thousands of years. Similarly, agricultural plants have been used …

The rise in consumption of energy‐dense foods has resulted in the displacement of several
essential dietary gaps, causing numerous long‐lasting diseases, including obesity, stroke …

Higher plants synthesize an amazing diversity of phenolic secondary metabolites. Phenolics
are defined secondary metabolites or natural products because, originally, they were …

A subject of extensive study in evolutionary theory has been the issue of how neutral,
redundant copies can be maintained in the genome for long periods of time. Concurrently …

Abstract “Plant phenolics” and “polyphenols” are secondary natural metabolites arising
biogenetically from either the shikimate/phenylpropanoid pathway, which directly provides …

Alkaloids are one of the largest groups of plant secondary metabolites, being present in
several economically relevant plant families. Alkaloids encompass neuroactive molecules …

Medicinal plants are a rich source of highly diverse specialized metabolites with important
pharmacological properties. Until recently, plant biologists were limited in their ability to …

Grapevine seedlings Vitis vinifera L. were grown in a greenhouse under optimum conditions
(soil moisture ca 70%) and under drought stress (soil moisture ca 30%). Drought stress …

We have demonstrated in previous studies that the essential macro-nutrients nitrogen (N)
and phosporous (P) have profound effects on the production of cannabinoids and …

The widely present symbiotic association between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and
plant roots contributes considerably to improve plant growth, nutrient uptake and stress …