Plant fructans: Recent advances in metabolism, evolution aspects and applications for human health.

Fructans, fructose polymers, are one of the three major reserve carbohydrate in plants. The nutritional and therapeutic benefits of natural fructans in plants have attracted increasing interest by consumers and food industry. In the course of evolution, many plants have developed the ability of regulating plant fructans metabolism to produce fructans with different structures and chain lengths, which are strongly correlated with their survival in harsh environments.

Identification, quantitative and bioactivity analyses of aroma and alcohol-soluble components in flowers of Gardenia jasminoides and its variety during different drying processes.

Gardenia jasminoides is an important ornamental greening plant with medicinal and edible values. This study investigated volatile constituents, alcoholic components and physiological activities on flowers of G. jasminoides Ellis and its variety.

Bioactive compounds from Polygonatum genus as anti-diabetic agents with future perspectives.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most serious health problems worldwide. Species in the genus Polygonatum are traditional food and medicinal plants, which play an important role in controlling blood glucose. In this reveiw, we systematically summarized the traditional and modern applications of the genus Polygonatum in DM, focused on the material bases of polysaccharides, flavonoids and saponins.

Genome-wide analysis of genes in and functional characterization of in jasmonate-mediated immunity to .

, belonging to the Orchidaceae, is a precious Chinese herbal medicine. (P1) is a broad-spectrum fungal disease, which causes widespread loss in the near-wild cultivation of . Thus, resistance breeding of has become the key to solve this problem.

Hormonal and Metabolomic Responses of to Infection with the Southern Blight Pathogen .

Southern blight caused by has a devastating effect on (an extremely valuable medicinal and food homologous Orchidaceae plant). However, the mechanisms underlying infection and response are far from known. Here, we investigated the infection process and mode of through microscopic observations of detached leaves and living plantlets and further explored the hormonal and metabolomic responses of during infection by using the widely targeted metabolome method.

Water-soluble non-starch polysaccharides of wild-simulated Lindley plantings on rocks and bark of pear trees.

The total water-soluble polysaccharide (TP) of is composed of starch and active non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) with glucomannan as the main structural type. Although the TP content has been used as a quality assessment indicator for many years, the NSPs content in samples from different environments and growth seasons have not been reported. In this study, we found that NSPs had stronger antioxidant activity than TP.