Valuable Sources of Bioactive Natural Products from Plants, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmacognosy; phytochemistry; pharmaceutical botany; natural products; saponins; phenolic compounds; flavonoids; HPLC and LC-MS strategies in specialized natural product elucidation; metabolite profiling; antioxidants; synergism between natural products and drugs
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Interests: phytochemistry; pharmacognosy; pharmaceutical botany; natural products; phenolic compounds; sesquiterpene lactones; HPLC and LC-MS strategies in specialized natural product elucidation; acetylholinesterase inhibitors; enzyme inhibitory activity; antioxidants; obesity
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Interests: medicinal plants; cultivation; plant conservation; plant metabolimics; antioxidant activity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants are a valuable source of new bioactive compounds and promising molecular entities for use in drug development. In the last decade, a variety of analytical methodologies have been used to emphasize the potential of plants as a source of compounds with functional and medicinal relevance. On the other hand, there is an increasingly high demand for safe medicinal products with increased functionality and improved characteristics, necessitating intensive research in the field of specialized (secondary) plant metabolites. Medicinal and aromatic plants are used worldwide in folk medicine; the phytochemical community has thus turned its focus to the medicinal value of traditional knowledge.
Plant-derived specialized metabolites are of particular interest because of the importance of both the chemical and biological characterization of medicinal plants. Currently, numerous research groups are focusing on the study and characterization of herbal extracts to identify a variety of plant metabolites and their potential to exert protective effects on biological systems. With the development of modern metabolite profiling methods and metabolomics, a holistic survey of natural extracts with valuable information on their chemical composition has become feasible.
This Special Issue of Plants will highlight the exploration of medicinal plants used in different regions of the world as valuable sources of bioactive compounds.
Dr. Reneta Gevrenova
Dr. Dimitrina Zheleva-Dimitrova
Dr. Vessela Balabanova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- bioactive compounds
- secondary metabolites
- phytochemistry
- metabolite profiling
- ethnobotany
- phytopharmacology
