Covering: through June 2021 Terpenoids are the largest class of natural products
recognised to date. While mostly known to humans as bioactive plant metabolites and part of …

Terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are the largest and most diverse class of organic
compounds in nature and are involved in many membrane-associated cellular processes …

Sea sponges are the largest marine source of small-molecule natural products described to
date. Sponge-derived molecules, such as the chemotherapeutic eribulin, the calcium …

Chimeric terpene synthases, which consist of C-terminal prenyltransferase (PT) and N-
terminal class I terpene synthase (TS) domains (termed PTTSs here), is unique to fungi and …

Insects use diverse arrays of small molecules such as metabolites of the large class of
terpenes for intra-and inter-specific communication and defense. These molecules are …

Dendrobium nobile Lindl. has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for a long time,
in which the most important compound is dendrobine functioning in a variety of …

Indirect defense is an important strategy employed by sessile plants to defend against
herbivorous insects by recruiting the natural enemies of herbivores mediated by herbivore …

Insects employ terpenoids for communication both within and between species. While
terpene synthases derived from isoprenyl diphosphate synthase have been shown to …

Microbial production of heterologous metabolites is now a mature technology in many host
organisms, opening new avenues for green production processes of specialty chemicals. At …

Early-diverging fungi harbour unprecedented diversity in terms of living forms, biological
traits and genome architecture. Before the sequencing era, non-Dikarya fungi were …