Plants produce a myriad of structurally and functionally diverse metabolites that play many
different roles in plant growth and development and in plant response to continually …

The phenylpropanoid pathway in plants is responsible for the biosynthesis of a huge amount
of secondary metabolites derived from phenylalanine and tyrosine. Both flavonoids and …

Cell wall matrices are complex composites mainly of polysaccharides, phenolics (monomers
and polymers), and protein. We are beginning to understand the synthesis of these major …

Background: Rice is the main staple food for the global population and drought is one of the
limited factor in rice production. In this research, progeny of a cross between an adapted US …

Summary Glycosyltransferases (GTs)(EC 2.4. xy) catalyze the transfer of sugar moieties to a
wide range of acceptor molecules, such as sugars, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, antibiotics …

The multigene family of enzymes known as glycosyltransferases or popularly known as GTs
catalyze the addition of carbohydrate moiety to a variety of synthetic as well as natural …

Poaceae represent the most important group of crops susceptible to abiotic stress. This large
family of monocotyledonous plants, commonly known as grasses, counts several important …

Xylan is the second most abundant polysaccharide on Earth and represents an immense
quantity of stored energy for biofuel production. Despite its importance, most of the enzymes …

Mixed-linkage glucan (MLG) is a cell wall polysaccharide containing a backbone of
unbranched (1, 3)-and (1, 4)-linked β-glucosyl residues. Based on its occurrence in plants …

We previously characterized the rice (Oryza sativa) Submergence1 (Sub1) locus encoding
three ethylene-responsive factor (ERF) transcriptional regulators. Genotypes carrying the …