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 ...

The anthraquinone emodin, identified in 17 plant families distributed worldwide, has numerous biological activities, some of which exhibit a wide spectrum of ecological impacts by mediating biotic or ...

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has successfully combined single-cell RNA sequencing ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...