Regulation of stilbene biosynthesis in plants

• Published in: Planta Vol. 246; no. 4; pp. 597 - 623
• Main Authors: Dubrovina, A. S., Kiselev, K. V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Science + Business Media 01.10.2017; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biosynthesis; Biosynthetic Pathways; Data processing; Disease resistance; Ecology; Environment; Environmental factors; flavonoids; Forestry; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; genes; Life Sciences; Metabolites; Phenolic compounds; Phenols; Plant diseases; plant diseases and disorders; Plant immunity; Plant protection; Plant Proteins - genetics; Plant Proteins - metabolism; Plant Sciences; Plants (botany); Plants - chemistry; Plants - genetics; Plants - metabolism; Resveratrol; REVIEW; Secondary metabolites; Signal Transduction; Stilbene; Stilbenes - chemistry; Stilbenes - metabolism; Transcription factors; Plants; Stilbene biosynthesis; Cell signaling; Resveratrol; Stilbene content and composition
• ISSN: 0032-0935; 1432-2048; 1432-2048
• DOI: 10.1007/s00425-017-2730-8

Stilbenes, including the most-studied stilbene resveratrol, are a family of phenolic plant secondary metabolites that have been the subject of intensive research due to their valuable pharmaceutical effects and contribution to plant disease resistance. Understanding the natural mechanisms regulating stilbene biosynthesis in plants could be useful for both the development of new plant protection strategies and for commercial stilbene production. In this review, we focus on the environmental factors and cell signaling pathways regulating stilbene biosynthesis in plants and make a comparison with the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis. This review also analyzes the recent data on stilbene biosynthetic genes and summarizes the available studies reporting on both stilbene content and stilbene composition in different plant families.