Plant specialized metabolites
Plants’ adaptation to their environment is intimately linked to and reflected in their fascinating capacity to produce a tremendous number of structurally diverse metabolites.
In addition to external ecological functions, such as defense against herbivores and attracting pollinators, intrinsic cellular functions regulating cell growth and differentiation also represent an important selection pressure shaping the evolution of plant specialized metabolites.
Integrating single-cell multi-omics and evolutionary genomics will advance our understanding of how plant specialized metabolisms evolve under both external and internal selection pressures.
https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385(25)00044-5
