Covering: up to 2022 Pentacyclic triterpenoids are important natural bioactive substances
that are widely present in plants and fungi. They have significant medicinal efficacy, play an …

A variety of organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and plants, produce secondary metabolites,
also known as natural products. Natural products have been a prolific source and an …

Mankind has recognized the value of land plants as renewable sources of food, medicine,
and materials for millennia. Throughout human history, agricultural methods were …

Covering: 2011–2022 The low amounts of terpenoids produced in plants and the difficulty in
synthesizing these complex structures have stimulated the production of terpenoid …

Triterpenoids are among the most assorted class of specialized metabolites found in all the
taxa of living organisms. Triterpenoids are the leading active ingredients sourced from plant …

Natural product libraries contain specialized metabolites derived from plants, animals, and
microorganisms that play a pivotal role in drug discovery due to their immense structural …

The amount of cholesterol made by many plants is not negligible. Whereas
cholesterogenesis in animals was elucidated decades ago, the plant pathway has remained …

The monoterpene indole alkaloids are a large group of plant-derived specialized
metabolites, many of which have valuable pharmaceutical or biological activity. There are∼ …

Horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis) is an important medicinal tree that contains various
bioactive compounds, such as aescin, barrigenol-type triterpenoid saponins (BAT), and …

Synthetic biology approach has been frequently applied to produce plant rare bioactive
compounds in microbial cell factories by fermentation. However, to reach an ideal …