York scientists discovered that the plant Flueggea suffruticosa uses a bacterial-like gene to make the medicinal alkaloid securinine. The same pathway exists amongst other plants, providing a new ...

A research team has uncovered and rebuilt a previously elusive plant pathway that produces oxindole alkaloids—a rare and ...

Scientists have shown how plants produce powerful natural chemicals that could help in the production of new medicines in ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in certain plant families, sometimes only in a single species. Interestingly, ...

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are typical compounds of plant secondary metabolism and are believed to be part of the plant's chemical defense. Within the monocotyledonous plants, PAs have been ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many plant natural products are ancestry-specific and occur only in certain plant families, sometimes only in a single species. Interestingly, ...

1. Fungal endophyte -grass symbioses can have dramatic ecological effects, altering individual plant physiology, plant and animal community structure and function, and ecosystem processes such as ...

Nightshade is a family of plants that includes tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and peppers. Tobacco is also in the nightshade family. Nightshades are unique because they contain small amounts of ...

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology collaborated with international colleagues to study the biosynthesis of ipecacuanha alkaloids. They compared two plant species ...