Plants have evolved fiendishly complicated metabolic networks. For years, scientists focused on how plants make secondary metabolites, the compounds that plants produce to enhance their defense and ...

This Collection welcomes original research on secondary metabolites, including plant biochemical studies and well-validated applications of metabolites. Secondary metabolites are compounds produced by ...

Plant tissue culture has emerged as a vital tool for the controlled production of secondary metabolites – bioactive compounds that are of paramount importance in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and ...

Building on work by Hiroyuki Osada’s group, which reported that the antibiotic hygromycin B induced fungal metabolites in one ...