Reductions in crop yields brought about by abiotic stress are expected to increase as climate change, and other factors, generate harsher environmental conditions in regions traditionally used for cultivation. Although ...

Plant secondary metabolites are a group of naturally occurring compound classes biosynthesized by differing biochemical pathways whose plant content and regulation is strongly susceptible to environmental influences and ...

The plant kingdom represents a valuable source of natural products of commercial interest. These compounds, named secondary metabolites, are not essential for the survival of plants, but confer them some advantages that ...

Bacteria colonizing the rhizosphere of plants (=rhizobacteria) play different ecological roles in their natural environment. Some are deleterious to plant growth and health, while many others are beneficial and act as both ...

Secondary metabolites commonly play important physiological roles in plants and can be modified quantitatively and qualitatively by exposure to biotic and abiotic interactions. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) ...

Plants are a source of commercially important secondary metabolites. Elicitation of plant cells in culture represents a useful biotechnological tool to improve the production of these valuable metabolites. Greater knowledge ...

Background: Parasites can exert selection pressure on their hosts through effects on survival, on reproductive success, on sexually selected ornament, with important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as changes ...