Biosynthesis is the generation of natural products through enzymatic reactions, as in cellular metabolism. Successive enzymatic reactions by a number of enzymes are generally required to achieve a ...

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Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Prediction of key genes in the AICAR biosynthetic pathway of endophytic Fusarium solaniPrevious study showed that overexpression of the global ...

Capital Medical University, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reports that betaine, a molecule produced ...

Locust plagues pose a significant threat to global agriculture, economies and the environment. Current control methods rely ...

SEVERAL workers have shown that lignin and the ‘B ring’ of flavonoids are formed in vivo from shikimic acid and certain C6C3 compounds. The latter compounds are frequently encountered in plant ...

Anaerobic bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth and existed at a time when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere.

Circumdatins are a unique class of fungal alkaloids featuring a pyrrolo[4,2]benzodiazepine scaffold. In this study, we identified the biosynthetic gene cluster through genome mining guided by ...

Queuosine is a hypermodified nucleoside present in the wobble position of tRNAs with a 5′-GUN-3′ sequence in their anticodon (His, Asp, Asn, and Tyr). The 7-deazapurine core of the base is synthesized ...

Researchers have mapped the chemical pathway for 4-vinylanisole that causes locusts to swarm and figured out how to inhibit ...