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 primary metabolism provides energy and some small molecule compound raw materials for secondary metabolism through photosynthesis, citric acid cycle, etc. Secondary metabolism also has an impact ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a computational metabolomic approach to measure metabolic diversity in different plant tissues, a new report outlines. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...

A Finnish researcher's work on two plants -- tobacco and Egyptian henbane -- is yielding new information about the functions of genes involved with the biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites. The ...

A recent review highlights the role of secondary metabolites in plant seed distribution and provides a framework for conceptualizing the impact of different metabolites. Growing up, there was a cherry ...

We were interested in determining the effect if any on growing conditions on clones of the same cannabis plant. In particular we were interested in the difference between plants grown outdoors in a ...

A key objective in ecology is to understand how cooperative strategies evolve and are maintained in species networks. Here, we focus on the tri-trophic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 12 (Mar. 25, 2008), pp. 4541-4546 (6 pages) The origin of plant chemical ecology generally dates to the ...

Plant-derived compounds are widely used across the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and agricultural industries. However, compared to other natural compounds, they often produce a lower yield of ...

Sucrose is a vital energy source in plants. It also drives growth and serves as an important signaling molecule during stress and development. Sucrose is a key product of photosynthesis and the ...