Evolution of Plant Metabolism: A (Bio)synthesis

Plant extract mediated biosynthesis of Al2O3 nanoparticles- a review on plant parts involved, characterization and applications

Metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) produced by green chemistry approaches have received notable attention because of their significant physic-chemical properties and their remarkable uses in the area of nanotechnology. Currently, the sustainable improvement of synthesizing NPs by distinctive parts of plant extract has become a major focus of scientists and researchers because of these NPs have min...

Convergent evolution in plant specialized metabolism.

Plants synthesize a multitude of compounds that contribute to adaptation to their ecological niches. Such compounds serve as attractants of other living organisms beneficial to the plants or as defense against other biotic as well as abiotic agents. Selection for increased fitness, a never-ending process, has resulted in each plant lineage synthesizing a distinct set of specialized metabolites ...

Auxin Biosynthesis and Metabolism

Charles Darwin cited the 1871 I'h.D. thesis of Theophil Ciesielski when he postulated in 1880 that a "transmitted influence" present in the tip of plant shoots was responsible for gravitropism. Both Darwin and Ciesielski had realized that the influence was affecting growth differentially. This influence was given the name auxin more than 50 years later and subsequently any compound that promote...

[Engineered biosynthesis of plant polyketides].

Streptomycin Biosynthesis and Metabolism

Extracts of streptomycin-producing strains of Sfreptomyces phosphorylate dihydrostreptomycin (sfrepfidino)phosphate with adenosine 5’-triphosphate as the phosphoryl donor. The second phosphate is esterified with the dihydrostreptobiosamine moiety. Streptomycin (sfreptidino)phosphate was not phosphorylated under similar conditions. Because of its lability, the new enzyme that is responsible for ...