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Arabidopsis thaliana lacks the flavone biosynthetic pathway, probably because of a lack or low activity of a flavone synthase. To establish this biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis, we subjected this model plant to transformation with the parsley gene for flavone synthase type I (FNS-I). Transgenic

UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs) convert aglycones into more stable, bioactive, and structurally diverse glycosylated derivatives. Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) produces various glycosylated phenolic metabolites, e.g. hydrolyzable tannins (HTs), anthocyanins, and flavonoids, and

Flavonoid compounds play important roles as flower pigments, stress metabolites formed in response to UV, during pollen germination and for polar auxin transport (Trends Plant Sci. 1 (1996) 377). Flavonoid sulfate esters are common in plants, especially the Asteraceae; however, due to the lack of

Acceptor substrates flexibility of previously characterized flavonol 7-O-rhamnosyltransferase (AtUGT89C1) from Arabidopsis thaliana was explored with an endogenous nucleotide diphosphate sugar and five different classes of flavonoids (flavonols, flavones, flavanones, chalcone and stilbenes) through

A flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase from tea plant was engineered to synthesize B-3',4'-dihydroxylated flavones such as eriodictyol, dihydroquercetin and quercetin. Four articifical P450 constructs harboring both flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase gene from Camellia sinensis (CsF3'H) and P450 reductase gene from

Caffeoyl-coenzyme A O-methyltransferase (CCoAOMT)-like proteins from plants display a conserved position specificity towards the meta-position of aromatic vicinal dihydroxy groups, consistent with the methylation pattern observed in vivo. A CCoAOMT-like enzyme identified from Arabidopsis thaliana

Flavones are a major group of flavonoids with diverse functions and are extensively distributed in land plants. There are two different classes of FLAVONE SYNTHASE (FNS) enzymes that catalyze the conversion of the flavanones into flavones. The FNSI class comprises soluble

Baicalein and scutellarein are bioactive flavones found in the medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, used in traditional Chinese medicine. Extensive previous work has demonstrated the broad biological activity of these flavonoids, such as antifibrotic, antiviral and anticancer properties.

Among secondary metabolites, flavonoids are particularly important for the plant life cycle and could be beneficial for human health. The study of Arabidopsis thaliana transparent testa mutants showed that seed flavonoids are important for environmental adaptation, reactive oxygen species

Flavones are a major class of flavonoids with a wide range of physiological functions in plants. They are constitutively accumulated as C-glycosides and O-linked conjugates in vegetative tissues of grasses. It has long been presumed that the two structural modifications of flavones occur through

C-Glycosylflavones are ubiquitous in the plant kingdom, and many of them have beneficial effects on human health. They are a special group of flavonoid glycosides in which the sugars are C-linked to the flavone skeleton. It has been long presumed that C-glycosylflavones have a different biosynthetic

Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings grown in the laboratory using the traditional plant-growing culture system (TPG) were covered to maintain them in darkness. This new method is based on a dark chamber and is named the improved plant-growing method (IPG). We measured the light conditions in

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-induced plant tumors accumulate considerable concentrations of free auxin. To determine possible mechanisms by which high auxin concentrations are maintained, we examined the pattern of auxin and flavonoid distribution in plant tumors. Tumors were induced in transformants

Previously it has been shown that the caffeoyl coenzyme A O-methyltransferase (CCoAOMT) type enzyme PaF6OMT, synthesized by the liverwort Plagiochasma appendiculatum Lehm. & Lindenb., (Aytoniaceae), interacts preferentially with 6-OH flavones. To clarify the biochemistry and evolution of

Lonicera maackii is an invasive shrub in North America for which allelopathic effects toward other plants or herbivores have been suspected. We characterized the major phenolic metabolites present in methanol extracts of L. maackii leaves. In addition, we examined the effects of methanol-water