Phenolics from medicinal and aromatic plants: Characterisation and potential as biostimulants and bioprotectants

M Kisiriko, M Anastasiadi, LA Terry, A Yasri, MH Beale… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biostimulants and bioprotectants are derived from natural sources and can enhance crop
growth and protect crops from pests and pathogens, respectively. They have attracted much …

Angiosperms at the edge: Extremity, diversity, and phylogeny

RA Folk, CM Siniscalchi, DE Soltis - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A hallmark of flowering plants is their ability to invade some of the most extreme and
dynamic habitats, including cold and dry biomes, to a far greater extent than other land …

Unexplored dimensions of variability in vegetative desiccation tolerance

RA Marks, JM Farrant… - American journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Desiccation tolerance has evolved recurrently across diverse land plant lineages as an
adaptation for survival in regions where seasonal rainfall drives periodic drying of vegetative …

Two decades of desiccation biology: A systematic review of the best studied angiosperm resurrection plants

SM Tebele, RA Marks, JM Farrant - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Resurrection plants have an extraordinary ability to survive extreme water loss but still revive
full metabolic activity when rehydrated. These plants are useful models to understand the …

The phenolic profile extracted from the desiccation-tolerant medicinal shrub Myrothamnus flabellifolia using Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents varies according to the …

J Bentley, EK Olsen, JP Moore, JM Farrant - Phytochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NaDES) have been proposed as designer solvents
for the green extraction of bioactive products from plants. Myrothamnus flabellifolia is a …

Overexpression of Myrothamnus flabellifolia MfWRKY41 confers drought and salinity tolerance by enhancing root system and antioxidation ability in Arabidopsis

Z Huang, L Song, Y Xiao, X Zhong, J Wang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Myrothamnus flabellifolia is the only woody resurrection plant discovered so far and could
recover from extreme desiccation condition. However, few genes related to its strong …

Combined ultraviolet and darkness regulation of medicinal metabolites in Mahonia bealei revealed by proteomics and metabolomics

W Zhu, H Han, A Liu, Q Guan, J Kang, L David… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Roots of Mahonia bealei have been used as traditional Chinese medicine with antibacterial,
antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties due to its high alkaloid content. Previously, we …

Systems biology of resurrection plants

T Gechev, R Lyall, V Petrov, D Bartels - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2021 - Springer
Plant species that exhibit vegetative desiccation tolerance can survive extreme desiccation
for months and resume normal physiological activities upon re-watering. Here we survey the …

Exploring the Potential of Myrothamnus flabellifolius Welw. (Resurrection Tree) as a Phytogenic Feed Additive in Animal Nutrition

CWT Nantapo, U Marume - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The unregulated use of in-feed antibiotic growth promoters has received
widespread condemnation due to an increase in cases of antibiotic-resistant microbes. This …

[HTML][HTML] In silico screening of SARS-CoV2 helicase using African natural products: Docking and molecular dynamics approaches

HR Knany, SA Elsabbagh, MA Shehata, WM Eldehna… - Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current medical era, there is an urgent necessity to identify new effective drugs to
enrich the COVID-19's therapeutic arsenal. The SARS-COV-2 NSP13/helicase enzyme has …