Safflower CtFT genes orchestrating flowering time and flavonoid biosynthesis.

Background: Safflower thrives in dry environments but faces difficulties with flowering in wet and rainy summers. Flavonoids play a role in flower development and can potentially alleviate these challenges. Furthermore, the FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) family of phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) genes play a crucial role in the photoperiodic flowering pathway.

Metabolites-induced co-evolutionary warfare between plants, viruses, and their associated vectors: So close yet so far away.

Agriculture and global food security encounter significant challenges due to viral threats. In the following decades, several molecular studies have focused on discovering biosynthetic pathways of numerous defensive and signaling compounds, as key regulators of plant interactions, either with viruses or their associated vectors. Nevertheless, the complexities of specialized metabolites mediated plant-virus-vector tripartite viewpoint and the identification of their co-evolutionary crossroads toward antiviral defense system, remain elusive.

Reviving Natural Rubber Synthesis via Native/Large Nanodiscs.

Natural rubber (NR) is utilized in more than 40,000 products, and the demand for NR is projected to reach $68.5 billion by 2026. The primary commercial source of NR is the latex of .

Safflower -Induced Drought Tolerance by Stimulating the Accumulation of Flavonols and Anthocyanins in .

Flavonol synthase gene () is a member of the 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase () superfamily and plays an important role in plant flavonoids biosynthetic pathways. Safflower ( L.), a key source of traditional Chinese medicine, is widely cultivated in China.

Safflower Flavonoid 3'5'Hydroxylase Promotes Methyl Jasmonate-Induced Anthocyanin Accumulation in Transgenic Plants.

Flavonoids are the most abundant class of secondary metabolites that are ubiquitously involved in plant development and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Flavonoid biosynthesis involves multiple channels of orchestrated molecular regulatory factors. Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) has been demonstrated to enhance flavonoid accumulation in numerous plant species; however, the underlying molecular mechanism of MeJA-induced flavonoid biosynthesis in safflower is still not evident.