During their evolution, plants have acquired the ability to produce a huge variety of
compounds. Unlike the specialized metabolites that accumulate in limited numbers of …

The role of flavonoids as the major red, blue, and purple pigments in plants has gained
these secondary products a great deal of attention over the years. From the first description …

Although pairwise interactions have always had a key role in ecology and evolutionary
biology, the recent increase in the amount and availability of biological data has placed a …

Most proteins do not evolve in isolation, but as components of complex genetic networks.
Therefore, a protein's position in a network may indicate how central it is to cellular function …

Parallel phenotypic evolution, the independent evolution of the same trait in closely related
lineages, is interesting because it tells us about the contribution of natural selection to …

A growing body of evidence indicates that phenylpropanoid and flavonoid metabolism is
catalyzed, not by free‐floating 'soluble'enzymes, but via one or more membrane‐associated …

Salicin‐based phenolic glycosides, hydroxycinnamate derivatives and flavonoid‐derived
condensed tannins comprise up to one‐third of Populus leaf dry mass. Genes regulating the …

Flavonoid biosynthesis is one of the most extensively studied areas of plant secondary
metabolism. Modern-day reports date back to 1664 and Robert Boyle's description of the …

Understanding the molecular genetic basis of adaptations provides incomparable insight
into the genetic mechanisms by which evolutionary diversification takes place. Whether the …

Isoprene synthase converts dimethylallyl diphosphate, derived from the methylerythritol 4-
phosphate (MEP) pathway, to isoprene. Isoprene is made by some plants in substantial …