Plant secondary metabolites as defense tools against herbivores for sustainable crop protection

PA Divekar, S Narayana, BA Divekar, R Kumar… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plants have evolved several adaptive strategies through physiological changes in response
to herbivore attacks. Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) are synthesized to provide …

[HTML][HTML] Role of plant secondary metabolites in defence and transcriptional regulation in response to biotic stress

S Kumar, T Korra, R Thakur, R Arutselvan, AS Kashyap… - Plant Stress, 2023 - Elsevier
Secondary metabolites in plants have been recognized as a novel basis of potential bio-
pesticides, paving the way for their use in sustainable agriculture. Plant secondary …

Plant secondary metabolites produced in response to abiotic stresses has potential application in pharmaceutical product development

K Yeshi, D Crayn, E Ritmejerytė, P Wangchuk - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) are vital for human health and constitute the skeletal
framework of many pharmaceutical drugs. Indeed, more than 25% of the existing drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Glucosinolate structural diversity, identification, chemical synthesis and metabolism in plants

I Blažević, S Montaut, F Burčul, CE Olsen, M Burow… - Phytochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
The glucosinolates (GSLs) is a well-defined group of plant metabolites characterized by
having an S-β-d-glucopyrano unit anomerically connected to an O-sulfated (Z) …

Secondary metabolites in the drought stress tolerance of crop plants: A review

B Yadav, A Jogawat, MS Rahman, OP Narayan - Gene Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Plants encounter various abiotic stresses under field conditions. Among them, drought stress
adversely affects crop productivity and threatens global food security. Drought stress triggers …

Plant Metabolic Network 15: A resource of genome‐wide metabolism databases for 126 plants and algae

C Hawkins, D Ginzburg, K Zhao… - Journal of integrative …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To understand and engineer plant metabolism, we need a comprehensive and accurate
annotation of all metabolic information across plant species. As a step towards this goal, we …

Evolution of gene duplication in plants

N Panchy, M Lehti-Shiu, SH Shiu - Plant physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ancient duplication events and a high rate of retention of extant pairs of duplicate genes
have contributed to an abundance of duplicate genes in plant genomes. These duplicates …

Pinpointing secondary metabolites that shape the composition and function of the plant microbiome

RP Jacoby, A Koprivova… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
One of the major questions in contemporary plant science involves determining the
functional mechanisms that plants use to shape their microbiome. Plants produce a plethora …

Enzymatic carbon–sulfur bond formation in natural product biosynthesis

KL Dunbar, DH Scharf, A Litomska… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Sulfur plays a critical role for the development and maintenance of life on earth, which is
reflected by the wealth of primary metabolites, macromolecules, and cofactors bearing this …

Amino acid catabolism in plants

TM Hildebrandt, AN Nesi, WL Araújo, HP Braun - Molecular plant, 2015 - cell.com
Amino acids have various prominent functions in plants. Besides their usage during protein
biosynthesis, they also represent building blocks for several other biosynthesis pathways …