Plants get bacterial infections, just as humans do. When food crops and trees are infected, their yield and quality can suffer. Although some compounds have been developed to protect plants, few of ...

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus produces a group of previously unknown natural products. With reference to plant isoquinoline alkaloids, these substances have been named fumisoquins. Researchers have ...

WHEN Dr. Henry published the first edition of his “Plant Alkaloids “ten years ago, general satisfaction was felt and expressed at the appearance in English of a really comprehensive work on so ...

Yong Duck Kim, Ji Yun Min, Won Jung Kim, Young Min Kang, Hyun Shik Moon, Cheul Ho Lee, D. Theertha Prasad and Myung Suk Choi An efficient in vitro plant regeneration system was established from callus ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

The investigation deals with in vitro clonal propagation of L. aestivum L. (summer snowflake), a threatened Amaryllidaceae plant species in Bulgaria used in the pharmaceutical industry as raw material ...

Chemists have made a significant advancement to directly functionalize C-H bonds in natural products by selectively installing new carbon-carbon bonds into highly complex alkaloids and ...

THE alkaloids of plants have long offered a most interesting and attractive, if always difficult, field of research to both chemists and physiologists. The subtle chemistry of the vegetable cell ...