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

Enzymes catalyze nearly all of the chemical reactions that occur in biological systems. Enzymes are generally proteins but also include catalytic DNA and catalytic RNA. As effective biological ...

However, in other flowering plants, the core eudicots, these enzymes are only weakly active. "We therefore suspected that these plants have a different, more efficient mechanism for indole ...

Flowering plants need indole: Indole is important for plant defense and for attracting pollinators. Indole biosynthesis occurs via a pseudoenzyme: Although TSB-like is essential for indole ...

Ten new clerodane diterpenoid glucosides (1–10) and three known analogues (11–13) were isolated from an EtOAc extract of the stems of Tinospora sinensis. Spectroscopic analyses and chemical methods ...

Molecule linked to metabolism found to boost plant growth Largely unexplored in plants, “itaconate” stimulates seedling development, offering a path to enhancing valuable food crops Peer ...