Research of Metabolomics and Active Principle in Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 3610
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolomics; natural products; medicinal plants; abiotic and biotic stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent studies on plant-based natural products have brought sophisticated results that have established the basis for modern traditional medicine, and today, plants remain an essential source of active compounds. Apart from human use, specialized metabolites play important ecophysiological roles in the complex plant–environment relationship. Biotic and abiotic factors affect the biosynthesis of a wide range of specialized metabolites. For medicinal exploitation purposes, it is, therefore, important to identify the different (biotic, abiotic, and seasonal) factors that may affect the production and accumulation of specialized metabolites in different populations of species. From a methodological point of view, the diversity of chemical structures brings a great analytical challenge. Owing to analytical and computational advancements, the metabolomic approach has proven to be an appropriate way to assess such complex interactions, without the need for compound isolation. On the other hand, the isolation of compounds is necessary to determine the chemical structure of new natural products and to assess their bioactivity.
In this Special Issue, we expect to bring together works that use metabolomic approaches to advance the understanding of plant–environment interactions, the determination of chemical markers, and the prioritization and targeted isolation of active principles from medicinal plants. Metabolomic work performed in different analytical platforms such as LC–MS, GC–MS, and NMR, among others, will be considered.
Dr. Luiz Leonardo Saldanha
Dr. Fernanda Mendes De Rezende
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
- climate change
- herbal medicine
- metabolomic
- molecular biology
