Extraction Processes of Essential Oils and Their Promising Biological Activities

Dear colleagues,

Throughout the ages, plants have been widely used in traditional medicines due to their activity, safety, low toxicity, and pharmacological efficacy. Around 50% of used pharmaceutical drugs around the world are derived from natural resources due to several side effects of synthetic chemical drugs in most cases. Among the overall phytochemicals derived from plants, essential oils (EOs) are considered promising bioactive compounds that are integrated into the food industries, pharmaceutics, and agriculture. EOs are known to possess several biological activities, such as antimicrobial, antiviral, allelopathic, antioxidant, insecticide, herbicide, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcerative, antipyretic, anticancer, antiaging, etc. The integration of natural bioactive compounds, particularly EOs in agriculture, industry, pharmaceutics, and cosmetics, attracts the attention of researchers and scientists worldwide.

         In this Special Issue, we invite investigators to contribute research articles on the extraction and characterization of essential oils from plants, microbes, and animals as well as their potential biological activities.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the those listed below.

• Extraction techniques of essential oils from natural resources.
• Isolation, identification, and characterization of essential oil composition.
• Antimicrobial and antiviral activities of essential oils.
• Antioxidant, allelopathic, insecticidal, and anti-inflammatory activities of essential oils.
• Factors affecting the composition of the essential oil in plants.
• Modes of action of essential oil compounds in biological activities.

Metabolic pathways engineering of essential oil.

Prof. Dr. Ahmed M. Abd-ElGawad
Dr. Yasser A. El-Amier
Guest Editors

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• Essential oils
• Bioactivity
• Antimicrobial
• Phytotoxicity
• Terpenes
• Green chemistry
• Natural products