Saponins are widely distributed plant natural products with vast structural and functional
diversity. They are typically composed of a hydrophobic aglycone, which is extensively …

The triterpenes are one of the most numerous and diverse groups of plant natural products.
They are complex molecules that are, for the most part, beyond the reach of chemical …

Medicinal plants are essential for improving human health, and around 75% of the
population in develo** countries relies mainly on herb-based medicines for health care …

Saponins are steroid and triterpenoid glycosides that display diverse biological activities.
The wide-spread occurrence in plants as well as the potential for pharmaceutical application …

Covering: up to the end of 2010 Saponins are polar molecules that consist of a triterpene or
steroid aglycone with one or more sugar chains. They are one of the most numerous and …

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) represent the largest enzyme family of the
plant metabolism. Plants typically devote about 1% of the protein-coding genes for the …

Plants have evolved to produce a blend of specialized metabolites that serve functional
roles in plant adaptation. Among them, triterpenoids are one of the largest subclasses of …

Plants are a rich source of specialized metabolites with a broad range of bioactivities and
many applications in human daily life. Over the past decades significant progress has been …

Gene clusters are common features of prokaryotic genomes also present in eukaryotes.
Most clustered genes known are involved in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites …

Genes for triterpene biosynthetic pathways exist as metabolic gene clusters in oat and A
rabidopsis thaliana plants. We characterized the presence of an analogous gene cluster in …