Crossroads in the evolution of plant specialized metabolism

TP Rieseberg, A Dadras, JMR Fürst-Jansen… - Seminars in Cell & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The monophyletic group of embryophytes (land plants) stands out among photosynthetic
eukaryotes: they are the sole constituents of the macroscopic flora on land. In their entirety …

Evolution and function of red pigmentation in land plants

KM Davies, M Landi, JW van Klink, KE Schwinn… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Land plants commonly produce red pigmentation as a response to
environmental stressors, both abiotic and biotic. The type of pigment produced varies among …

The evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway entailed pronounced radiations and divergences of enzyme families

S de Vries, JMR Fürst‐Jansen, I Irisarri… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land plants constantly respond to fluctuations in their environment. Part of their response is
the production of a diverse repertoire of specialized metabolites. One of the foremost …

Phylogeny and evolution of streptophyte algae

MJ Bierenbroodspot, T Pröschold… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The Streptophyta emerged about a billion years ago. Nowadays, this branch of the green
lineage is most famous for one of its clades, the land plants (Embryophyta). Although …

The confluence of big data and evolutionary genome mining for the discovery of natural products

MG Chevrette, A Gavrilidou, S Mantri… - Natural product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers literature between 2003–2021 The development and application of
genome mining tools has given rise to ever-growing genetic and chemical databases and …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the biosynthesis pathway of phenolic compounds in microalgae

A Del Mondo, C Sansone, C Brunet - Computational and Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the most relevant bioactive molecules family, phenolic compounds (PCs) are well
known in higher plants, while their knowledge in microalgae is still scarce. Microalgae …

Orthology‐based analysis helps map evolutionary diversification and predict substrate class use of BAHD acyltransferases

LH Kruse, AT Weigle, M Irfan… - The Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Large enzyme families catalyze metabolic diversification by virtue of their ability to use
diverse chemical scaffolds. How enzyme families attain such functional diversity is not clear …

Anthocyanins and reactive oxygen species: a team of rivals regulating plant development?

JVA Cerqueira, MT De Andrade, DD Rafael, F Zhu… - Plant Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Anthocyanins are a family of water-soluble vacuolar pigments present in almost all flowering
plants. The chemistry, biosynthesis and functions of these flavonoids have been intensively …

Accessible versatility underpins the deep evolution of plant specialized metabolism

A Dadras, TP Rieseberg, JMS Zegers… - Phytochemistry …, 2023 - Springer
The evolution of several hallmark traits of land plants is underpinned by phytochemical
innovations. The specialized metabolism of plants can appear like a teeming chaos that has …

Auronidin flavonoid pigments are a central component of the response of Marchantia polymorpha to carbon/nitrogen imbalance

Y Zhou, NW Albert, RM Yorker, R Jibran… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The emergence of land plants around 450 million years ago transformed the terrestrial
environment. The transition of plants to land required adaptations to a host of abiotic …