Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants which includes daisies, sunflowers and asters, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family comprises around 34,000 species, ...

Each member of the Acanthus family of plants (Acanthaceaae) has a unique style that makes it hard to forget. Acanthus comes from the Greek word for thorn but most of the plants in question are hardly ...

The cinchona alkaloids are a family of plant-derived compounds that include quinine, an antimalarial drug also used as the bittering ingredient in tonic water. The biosynthetic pathway in Cinchona ...