Flavonoids as Important Molecules of Plant Interactions with the Environment

By Justyna Mierziak, K. Kostyn, A. Kulma. Molecules, 2014

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Flavonoids are small molecular secondary metabolites synthesized by plants with various biological activities. Due to their physical and biochemical properties, they are capable of participating in plants’ interactions with other organisms (microorganisms, animals and other plants) and their reactions to environmental stresses. The majority of their functions result from their strong antioxidative properties. Although an increasing number of studies focus on the application of flavonoids in medicine or the food industry, their relevance for the plants themselves also deserves extensive investigations. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the functions of flavonoids in the physiology of plants and their relations with the environment.

Subfields: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate Alleviates Salinity-Retarded Seed Germination and Oxidative Stress in Tomato (2018, positive): “1 3 speed under salt treatment, possibly attributable to the high antioxidant potential of EGCG and/or flavonoid signalingmediated stress response (Mierziak et al. 2014; Mouradov and Spangenberg 2014; Nakabayashi et al. 2014).”
• Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzymes in Higher Plants (2018, background): “…the regulation of flavonoids in various plants such as Arabidopsis (MYB75 (PAP1), MYB90 (PAP2), MYB12 and MYBL2), petunia (AN2, PH4), grape (MYBA1, MYBA2), sweet potato, apple (MYB10/MYB1/MYBA), legume (LAP1) and persimmon (MYB4) and Epimedium sagittatum (MYBA1) (reviewed in Mierziak et al. 2014).”
• Flavonoids: Classification, Biosynthesis and Chemical Ecology (2017, background): “The other important class is the isoflavonoids, which are formed by migration reaction of 2-aryl side chain to 3-position mediated by isoflavone synthase [1, 16, 18].”