Ochatt S., Alan A.R., Bhattacharya A., Hano C., Kiselev K.V., Marconi P.L., Otoni W.C., Park S.Y., Tang K.X., Weathers P.J.
В журнале Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Год: 2022 Том: 149 Страницы: 1-6
Plants synthesize a wide spectrum of specialized and often complex secondary metabolites (aka specialized metabolites), whose structures are sometimes difficult to reproduce synthetically. Most such metabolites do not necessarily participate in maintaining many of the fundamental plant life processes but could still play a central role in the interactions of plants with their changing environment. Certain metabolites possess antimicrobial or insecticidal activities that deter predators, and various allelopathic traits that may discourage competing weeds while, contrastingly, some secondary metabolites may attract pollinators or symbionts through their chromatic, olfactory, or chemotactic properties. Other than their direct impact for the plant, the secondary metabolites hold a paramount interest for human activities as flavors, fragrances, dyes, pesticides, antioxidants, or pharmaceuticals.
