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Jun 5, 2023 · Main text. What are plant specialized metabolites? By definition, plant specialized metabolites are species-specific compounds that contribute to plant adaptation and to the successful survival of plants in the changing ecological environment.
To achieve optimal multifunctionality of diverse specialized metabolic processes, plants employ various adaptive mechanisms at subcellular, cellular, tissue, organ and interspecies levels.
Jun 12, 2023 · Each of these methods enables the stable accumulation of specialized metabolites and avoids autotoxicity. Other than detoxification, plants can adapt to highly toxic metabolites.
Here, I discuss several general patterns observed in rapidly evolving specialized metabolic systems in plants, and surmise mechanistic features at enzyme, pathway and organismal levels that rationalize the remarkable malleability of these systems through stepwise evolution.
- Jing-Ke Weng
- 2014
Dec 23, 2022 · Plants biosynthesize a broad range of natural products through specialized and species-specific metabolic pathways that are fuelled by core metabolism, together forming a metabolic network....
Plant specialized metabolites involved in plant defense. Representative chemical structures are shown for terpenoids, alkaloids, glucosinolates, cyano- genic glucosides, phenylpropanoids, and fatty-acid derivatives.
Apr 11, 2020 · Under drought stress conditions, plants need to adapt themselves by manipulating key morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes. By doing so plants enhance their water uptake and storage, limit water loss and prevent tissues from wilting....
