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Specialized metabolites in "living fossil" plants: important factors for survival in a changing environment

Plants that lived in ancient times and still survive on earth today are known as a "living fossils." These plants are characterised by a fascinating adaptation to adverse environmental conditions that has allowed them to survive to the present day. Environmental stress can be defined as any change in growth conditions in the plant's natural habitat that alters or disrupts its metabolic homeostasis. As sessile organisms, plants respond to stress conditions with changes in the gene expression pattern of proteins that control the biosynthesis of metabolites involved in the interactions between a plant and its environment. Thus, the biosynthesis and diversity of specific metabolites is critical for survival in a stressful environment. Metabolic profiling of "living fossils" 281 is an important link to explain plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions. This poster will present the results of metabolic profiling of "living fossil" plants Psilotum nudum L., Equisetum sp. and Ginkgo biloba L. obtained in recent years using multiplatform metabolic profiling, as well as the most recent data obtained within the Croatian Science Foundation project "Biflavonoids role in plants: Ginkgo biloba L. as a model system" (UIP-2019-04- 1018).

plants ; live fossils

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