Dynamics of alkannin/shikonin biosynthesis in response to jasmonate and salicylic acid in Lithospermum officinale

Abstract Alkannin/shikonin and their derivatives are specialised metabolites of high pharmaceutical and ecological importance exclusively produced in the periderm of members of the plant family Boraginaceae. Previous studies have shown that their biosynthesis is induced in response to methyl jasmona...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Ahmad, Alicia Varela Alonso, Antigoni E. Koletti, Nebojša Rodić, Michael Reichelt, Philipp Rödel, Andreana N. Assimopoulou, Ovidiu Paun, Stéphane Declerck, Carolin Schneider, Eva M. Molin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21322-0