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SUBMITTER: Liu K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5253511 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Kang K Abdullah Azian Azamimi AA Huang Ming M Nishioka Takaaki T Altaf-Ul-Amin Md M Kanaya Shigehiko S
BioMed research international 20170109
Secondary metabolites are bioactive substances with diverse chemical structures. Depending on the ecological environment within which they are living, higher plants use different combinations of secondary metabolites for adaptation (e.g., defense against attacks by herbivores or pathogenic microbes). This suggests that the similarity in metabolite content is applicable to assess phylogenic similarity of higher plants. However, such a chemical taxonomic approach has limitations of incomplete meta ...[more]