“…They play important roles in the control of plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses (Takahama, 1982;Hahlbrock and Scheel, 1989;Nicholson, 1992;Feucht et al, 1996;Taiz and Zeiger, 2000;Peter et al, 2001;Ryan et al, 2001;Broeckling et al, 2005;Lattanzio et al, 2006;Chennupati et al, 2012;Dasgupta et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2014;Martínez-Lüscher et al, 2014;Nakabayashi et al, 2014). In some plant species flavonoids are required for the growth of the pollen tube (Yistra et al, 1992;Eldik et al, 1997;Guyon et al, 2000;Antognoni et al, 2004) and seed development (Jiang et al, 2013;Lee et al, 2013;Vogt et al, 1994). They also act in plants as allelochemicals (Taylor and Grotewold, 2005;Li et al, 2010;Filho et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2013;Weston and Mathesius, 2013), signalling molecules in symbiotic associations (Zhang et al, 2007;Maj et al, 2010;Mandal et al, 2010;Moscatiello et al, 2010;Zhang and Franken, 2014) and growth inhibitors (Phillips, 1962;Thimann, 1963;Brown et al, 2001;Yoshioda et al, 2004;Besseau et al, 2007;Brunetti et al, 2013).…”