Secondary plant metabolites in phytoremediation and biotransformation

Singer AC, Crowley DE, Thompson IP Trends in biotechnology, 2003 ABSTRACT: For millennia, secondary plant metabolites have antagonized microorganisms, insects and humans alike, ultimately generating a complex and dynamic mixture of facultative and obligate interactions from symbioses to pathogenicity. Secondary plant metabolites have an important role in developing the myriad of organic pollutant-degrading enzymes found… Read more »