Kojiro Takanashi

Abstract Natural products (NPs) are vital for promoting human health. Given the increasing threats of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, understanding the geographical hotspots of NPs is essential to strategically prioritize areas for conservation, ensuring the sustained availability of these invaluable medicinal resources. We constructed a global diversity map for 1,434 woody angiosperm species, each represented by existing genomic or transcriptomic data.

Abstract The conservation of biodiversity is important for a number of reasons, one of which being drug discovery. Such conservation would benefit from better understanding of the geographical and genetic patterns of natural product (NP) biosynthesis in plants. Here, we integrate publicly accessible next-generation sequencing and species distribution data of 1,612 woody plant species and their 166 enzymes and establish critical metrics to highlight specific enzyme-rich regions.