Harnessing Medicinal Plant Potential: Integrative Approaches from Breeding to Metabolomics
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 1531
Editors
Interests: medicinal plants; plant cell tissue culture; molecular biology; metabolomics
Interests: in vitro plant conservation; crypreservation; phytochemical characterization; stress physiology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants have been valued for generations, with traditional knowledge highlighting their benefits to human health. Modern scientific approaches continue to reveal the complexity of plant chemical profiles and their therapeutic relevance. Plants constantly adapt to environmental pressures through dynamic biosynthetic pathways, producing diverse metabolites that are essential for protection, communication, and survival, many of which have significant medicinal potential.
This Special Issue, “Harnessing Medicinal Plant Potential: Integrative Approaches from Breeding to Metabolomics”, highlights interdisciplinary research aimed at advancing our understanding of these dynamic biological processes. We invite contributions that investigate breeding strategies for trait improvement, in vitro and tissue culture methodologies, metabolomic profiling, bioactivity assessments, phytochemical characterization, and structure–function relationships of bioactive compounds in medicinal and edible plant species. By integrating these complementary fields, this Special Issue aims to deepen insight into the mechanisms that generate valuable plant metabolites and support the development of improved plant resources with health-promoting properties.
We welcome researchers to share their innovative findings and emerging technologies to understand the biochemical and biological potential of medicinal plants.
Dr. Alma Angélica Del Villar-Martínez
Dr. Mukund R. Shukla
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- medicinal plants
- in vitro culture
- stress resilience
- biosynthesis pathways
- phytochemical characterization
- metabolomics
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.
