Background A plant is considered carnivorous if it receives any noticeable benefit from
catching small animals. The morphological and physiological adaptations to carnivorous …

The lipid-derived jasmonate phytohormones (JAs) regulate a wide spectrum of physiological
processes in plants such as growth, development, tolerance to abiotic stresses, and defence …

Microorganisms can promote plant growth through direct and indirect mechanisms.
Compared with the use of bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, the use of yeasts as plant growth …

The flavonoid biosynthesis pathway yields a large family of phenolic compounds which are
involved in many biological activities including plant defense response to a broad spectrum …

In this study, we exploit the anti-oxidative potential of four carnivorous plants to produce
uniform and biologically active silver nanoparticles. The use of polyvinylpyrrolidone …

Background Carnivorous plants are an ideal model system for evaluating the role of
secondary metabolites in plant ecology and evolution. Carnivory is a striking example of …

Staphylococcus aureus is the most common infectious agent involved in the development of
skin infections that are associated with antibiotic resistance, such as burn wounds. As drug …

A structure-guided molecular design approach was used to optimize quercetin
diacylglycoside analogues that inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV and …

Different in vitro culture systems of the East-Asian origin medicinal plant species−
Schisandra chinensis, were tested in order to investigate their potential for the accumulation …

The carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula J. Ellis (Venus flytrap) is a widely known medical
herb, capable of producing various phenolic compounds known for their strong antioxidant …