High-value active ingredients in medicinal plants have attracted research attention because
of their benefits for human health, such as the antimalarial artemisinin, anticardiovascular …

While plants are an abundant source of valuable natural products, it is often challenging to
produce those products for commercial application. Often organic synthesis is too expensive …

Catharanthus roseus produces bioactive terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIA s), including the
chemotherapeutics, vincristine and vinblastine. Transcriptional regulation of TIA …

Agrobacterium rhizogenes, along with A. tumefaciens, has been used to affect genetic
transformation in plants for many years. Detailed studies conducted in the past have …

Background Dendrobium officinale, an endangered Chinese herb, possesses extensive
therapeutic effects and contains bioactive ingredients such as major polysaccharides …

Salvia miltiorrhiza has numerous compounds with extensive clinical application.“Sweating”,
a processing method of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), results in great changes in …

Plants produce a large variety of low-molecular-weight and specialized secondary
compounds. Among them, nitrogen-containing alkaloids are the most biologically active and …

Biosynthesis of medicinally valuable terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs) in Catharanthus
roseus is regulated by transcriptional activators such as the basic helix–loop–helix factor …

As one of the model medicinal plants for exploration of biochemical pathways and molecular
biological questions on complex metabolic pathways, Catharanthus roseus synthesizes …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate numerous crucial biological processes in plants. However,
information is limited on their involvement in the biosynthesis of specialized metabolites in …