Plants, including vegetables are a well-known source of health-promoting phytochemicals (plant secondary metabolites) that take part in several physiological processes and play major role plant defense adaptation, particular plant–environment interactions [...]

Among plant secondary metabolites terpenoids are a structurally most diverse.

It is assumed that salinity enhances the concentration of valuable metabolites in halophytes. The objective was to find a salt concentration and a point in time at which the yield for the valuable metabolites was maximal. Therefore, three different halophyte species were grown under different salinities and harvested over a period from shortly after stress induction up to three weeks. Various r...

conclusions the present study confirms the notion of selecting endophytic fungi of medicinal plant justicia for the bioassay-guided isolation of its bioactive compounds, and demonstrates that endophytic fungus chaetomium sp. nf15 could be a potential source of bioactive metabolites materials and methods endophytic fungi associated with the j. adhatoda l. plant were isolated from healthy plant p...

Winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris) is resistant to a range of insect species. Some B. vulgaris genotypes are resistant, whereas others are susceptible, to herbivory by flea beetle larvae (Phyllotreta nemorum). Metabolites involved in resistance to herbivory by flea beetles were identified using an ecometabolomic approach. An F2 population representing the whole range from full susceptibility to f...

On plants, microbial populations interact with each other and their host through the actions of secreted metabolites. However, the combined action of diverse organisms and their different metabolites on plant health has yet to be fully appreciated. Here, the multifactorial nature of these interactions, at the organismal and molecular level, leading to the biological control of plant diseases is...