Tox-boxes, fungal secondary metabolites, and plant disease

Tox-boxes, fungal secondary metabolites, and plant disease.

M plant pathogens secrete toxins that disable their host (1). Some of these have general phytotoxic properties and are active toward a broad range of plant species. Others are host-selective, affecting only certain plant varieties or genotypes. These host-selective toxins (HSTs) can act as agents of virulence of pathogens to toxinsensitive hosts, so determining host range or specificity (1, 2)....

Human and Plant Fungal Pathogens: The Role of Secondary Metabolites

Secondary metabolites (SM) are small organic molecules produced by various microorganisms (mainly fungi and actinobacteria, among others) through the action of large enzymes like nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) and polyketide synthases (PKS) or by enzymes like dimethylallyl transferases and prenyltransferases. These special metabolites are in general not essential for growth but are bel...

Plant secondary metabolites: a review

Plants are important source for the discovery of new products of medicinal value for drug development and plants secondary metabolites are unique sources for pharmaceuticals food additives, flavors and others industrial values. Commercial importance of these secondary metabolites has resulted in a great interest in its production and in exploring possibilities of enhancing its production by mea...

Editorial: Harm and Benefit of Plant and Fungal Secondary Metabolites in Food Animal Production

Secondary plant metabolites in phytoremediation and biotransformation.

For millennia, secondary plant metabolites have antagonized microorganisms, insects and humans alike, ultimately generating a complex and dynamic mixture of facultative and obligate interactions from symbioses to pathogenicity. Secondary plant metabolites have an important role in developing the myriad of organic pollutant-degrading enzymes found in nature. The link between secondary plant meta...