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On the evolution of plant secondary chemical diversity


On the evolution of plant secondary chemical diversity - Journals

Abstract. A common-sense evolutionary scenario predicts that well-defended plants should have a moderate diversity of secondary compounds with high biological ...

On the evolution of plant secondary chemical diversity - jstor

A common-sense evolutionary scenario predicts that well-defended plants should have a moderate diversity of secondary compounds with high biological ...

(PDF) On the Evolution of Plant Secondary Chemical Diversity [and ...

On the Evolution of Plant Secondary Chemical Diversity ... A common-sense evolutionary scenario predicts that well-defended plants should have a moderate ...

(PDF) On the Evolution of Plant Secondary Chemical Diversity

A common-sense evolutionary scenario predicts that well-defended plants should have a moderate diversity of secondary compounds with high biological ...

On the evolution of plant secondary chemical diversity

It is argued that plants actually contain a very high diversity of mostly inactive secondary compounds, which result because compounds ...

Diversity and divergence: evolution of secondary metabolism in the ...

Plants are widely recognized as chemical factories, with each species producing dozens to hundreds of unique secondary metabolites.

Plant Secondary Metabolism: Diversity, Function and its Evolution

Also the microorganisms that are present in the rumen or intestines of herbivores can play a role in inactivating plant defense chemicals. The ecological ...

Origin and maintenance of chemical diversity in a species-rich ...

Plant secondary metabolites play important ecological and evolutionary roles, most notably in the deterrence of natural enemies.

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying secondary metabolite diversity

The enormous chemical diversity and the broad range of biological activities of secondary metabolites raise many questions about their role in nature and ...

THE EVOLUTION OF FUNCTION IN PLANT SECONDARY ... - jstor

Ecological and evolutionary models have focused on the origin and maintenance of plant chemical diversity and on the regulation of chemical concentrations ...

The evolution of chemodiversity in plants—From verbal to ...

Plant chemodiversity is the diversity of specialised metabolites (SMs) plants produce at different levels of organisation—from single organs to ...

Phylogenomics and evolution of secondary metabolism in plant ...

Although their morphological diversity is limited, their biochemical diversity is extraordinary. A significant portion of this biochemical diversity consists of ...

The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Chemical Defenses

On an ecological timescale, while greater specialization of tropical herbivores enhances local diversity by reducing the performance of plants ...

The evolution of the diversity of secondary metabolites - Leiden ...

Why do plants produces always produced so many slightly differing metabolites within a particular chemical class? ... Why do plants produces so many slightly ...

Evolutionary Diversification of Primary Metabolism and Its ... - Frontiers

Plants produce a diverse array of lineage-specific specialized (secondary) metabolites, which are synthesized from primary metabolites. Plant ...

evolution of pathways for novel metabolites in plants - ScienceDirect

This metabolic diversification is reflected by the fact that plant genomes are rich in genes with predicted functions in secondary metabolism, as revealed by ...

century of studying plant secondary metabolism—From “what?” to ...

The past century has led to remarkable advances in illuminating the chemical repertoire, biosynthetic pathways, localization patterns, ...

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying secondary metabolite diversity

The enormous chemical diversity and the broad range of biological activities of secondary ... On the evolution of plant secondary metabolite chemical diversity.

Macroevolutionary chemical escalation in an ancient plant ... - PNAS

A central paradigm in the field of plant–herbivore interactions is that the diversity and complexity of secondary compounds in plants have intensified over ...

Plant Secondary Metabolism: Diversity, Function and its Evolution

This review tries to explain the patchy occurrence of SM in plants. It could be due to convergent evolution, but evidence is provided that the genes that encode ...