Valeria Cavalloro, Stefania Pagliari, Fabio Gosetti, Luca Campone, Cristina Sottani, Simona Collina, Emanuela Martino, Francesco Saverio Robustelli Della Cuna
Orchids are experiencing wide success in ornamental, medicinal, and food fields. The reason for their success is correlated with both their morphology and metabolomics, the latter linked to their taste and biological effects. Despite many orchids having already been the subject of chemotaxonomic works, some of them are still untapped, like the case of Orchis purpurea . O. purpurea is one of the most common species of the genus Orchis , present in hedgerows, verges, and light woodland, where it is one of the few herbaceous plants able to be unpleasant to herbivorous animals...
April 10, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)