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Fabricating Effective and Recyclable Cadmium‐based Coordination Polymer for Selective Synthesis of 1,5‐Benzodiazepines

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Identification and engineering of a UDP-rhamnosyltransferase from Trillium tschonoskii for heterologous biosynthesis of polyphyllin Ⅱ in yeast

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Engineering the Substrate Specificity of UDP‐Glycosyltransferases for Synthesizing Triterpenoid Glycosides with a Linear Trisaccharide as Aided by Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction

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Discovery, Biomanufacture, and Derivatization of Licorice Triterpenoids

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Molecular characterization and structural basis of a promiscuous glycosyltransferase for β‐(1,6) oligoglucoside chain glycosides biosynthesis

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Functional characterization of a Flavonol 3-O-rhamnosyltransferase and two UDP-rhamnose synthases from Hypericum monogynum

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Insights into the missing apiosylation step in flavonoid apiosides biosynthesis of Leguminosae plants

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