Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defenses, Regulators, and Primary Metabolites: The Blurred
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Flavonoids are a special category of hydroxylated phenolic compounds having an aromatic
ring structure. Quercetin is aspecial subclass of flavonoid. It is a bioactive natural compound …

Flavonols are plant-specialized metabolites with important functions in plant growth and
development. Isolation and characterization of mutants with reduced flavonol levels …

Plant growth and development are critically influenced by unpredictable abiotic factors. To
survive fluctuating changes in their environments, plants have had to develop robust …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are processed products of primary miRNAs (pri-miRNAs) and regulate
the target gene expression. Though the regulatory roles of the several mature plant miRNAs …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a multitude of signaling roles in different organisms
from bacteria to mammalian cells. They were initially thought to be toxic byproducts of …

The differential distribution of the plant signaling molecule auxin is required for many
aspects of plant development. Local auxin maxima and gradients arise as a result of local …

Flavonoids are ubiquitous in the plant kingdom and have many diverse functions including
defense, UV protection, auxin transport inhibition, allelopathy, and flower coloring …

The old observation that plants preferentially synthesize flavonoids with respect to the wide
range of phenylpropanoid structures when exposed to high doses of UV-B radiation has …

Adventitious root (AR) formation in cuttings is a multiphase developmental process, resulting
from wounding at the cutting site and isolation from the resource and signal network of the …