Stictic acid is an aromatic organic compound, a product of secondary metabolism in some species of lichens.

They origin from the bacterial secondary metabolism.

Many of the extra genes present in A. oryzae are predicted to be involved in secondary metabolism.

This led to the theory that there were several eukaryotic protein kinases present required for secondary metabolism.

Typically, the activated genes are involved in secondary metabolism, biofilm formation and motility.

In order for the plants to stay healthy however, secondary metabolism plays a pinnacle role in keeping all the of plants' systems working properly.

Because it is easy to detect, it has been used as a model system to study secondary metabolism.

After returning to Sweden, he continued his studies on secondary metabolism.

In environments where the resource demands for growth are met, carbon is allocated to rapidly dividing meristems (high sink strength) at the expense of secondary metabolism.

Examples of these are enzyme for primary and secondary metabolism in plants ( Plant secondary metabolism below).