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Review
. 2016 Nov;41(21):3897-3903.
doi: 10.4268/cjcmm20162103.

[Progress of effects of light on plant flavonoids]

[Article in Chinese]
Jun-Qian Pan  1 , Xi-Ran Tong  1 , Bao-Lin Guo  1
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Review

[Progress of effects of light on plant flavonoids]

[Article in Chinese]
Jun-Qian Pan et al. Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2016 Nov.

Abstract

As an important secondary metabolites of medicinal plant, flavonoids plays a very important role on itself including light protection and antioxidant. Light is one of the important environmental factors which impacts the secondary metabolites of plant and has a significant impact on biological synthesis of flavonoids. This paper reviews the recent progress of the effects of light on flavonoids on the plants focusing from light intensity and light quality, and summarizes briefly functions of the phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) in plant secondary metabolism and the upstream key enzyme chalcone synthase (CHS) in flavonoid biosynthetic pathway.

Keywords: CHS; PAL; flavonoids; light intensity; light quality.

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The authors of this article and the planning committee members and staff have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

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