Recent Advances in Metabolic Processes and Metabolites of Agricultural Crops

Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture can be defined as that human activity aimed at obtaining the highest number of plant products with the best nutritional potentialities. For that reason, humans have always devoted a great part of their time seeking those health-promoting treasures. From the simple and intuitive first-sight analysis of the plant products initiated in the Neolithic to the application of cutting-edge approaches today, many issues have been the focus of human efforts oriented towards agriculture.

Genetic breeding has been one of the strategies developed since pioneering Plant Science started, improving species and cultivars with profitable use, either nutritional, forage or industrial. Due to the rapid development of genetic tools, genomic and transcriptomic eras have achieved considerable advances to obtain the best and most resistant varieties to uncountable stresses. However, due to the complex and mostly specific secondary metabolism which performs in plant cells, a deeper knowledge of how the plant cell physiology is able to adapt to the imminent scenario of climate change is still necessary.

With these perspectives, works (either research papers and reviews) focused on the investigation of the most updated issues related to plant metabolic processes, including single and complex enzymatic pathways, and the report and potential implications of new metabolites in agricultural crops, including exogenous growth promoters (salicylic acid, silicon, nanoparticles, among others), will be welcomed.

Prof. Dr. José M. Palma
Prof. Francisco Corpas
Guest Editors

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