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

Plants have long been central to bioactive compound discovery, with many secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, and phenolics ...

There has been much speculation about how bipinnatin J could be related to other, much more complex marine natural products ...

The biosynthesis of (S)-cathinone and the related phenylpropylamino alkaloids (1S,2S)-cathine and (1R,2S)-norephedrine is not well characterized in plants. We prepared a cDNA library from young khat ...

A fungus called LY9 could revolutionize farming! New research shows it dramatically boosts rice growth, increasing shoots, ...

在北极永冻层分离的真菌Penicillium citrinum VKM F-4043D展现惊人的代谢天赋——能同步合成喹啉类生物碱（quinocitrinines）和麦角类生物碱（ergot alkaloids）。当以琥珀酸或甘露醇为食时，其呼吸作用呈现精彩的双重奏：氧气消耗曲线与菌体生长、生物碱合成完美同步，峰值时刻三者竟神奇重合！ 更令人称奇 ...

Collective synthesis is a well-established strategy to produce natural product collections from common intermediates. Extending this concept to enzymatic systems, collective biosynthesis offers a ...

Prenylation is a common step in the biosynthesis of many natural products and plays an important role in increasing their structural diversity and enhancing biological activity. Muscoride A is a ...