Analysis of Antioxidant and Bioactive Compounds in Agriculture
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 849
Editors
Interests: bioactive compounds; polyphenols; essential oils; minerals; chromatography; cosmeceuticals; nutraceuticals
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Interests: bioactive compound; essential oil; polyphenol; natural product; nutraceutical; antioxidant; bioactivity; functional foods; food analysis; waste by-products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since ancient times, agriculture has played a key role in providing food and plant-based raw materials, and current research now focuses on how agronomic practices and pedoclimatic conditions influence the content, composition, and functionality of antioxidant and bioactive compounds, supporting their valorisation and innovative applications.
Plant secondary metabolites, including polyphenols, flavonoids, terpenes, alkaloids, glucosinolates, carotenoids, saponins, and other bioactive classes, contribute to plant defense, stress adaptation, and interactions with the environment. These compounds play a key role in signaling and protection, and their accumulation is strongly affected by cultivation techniques and environmental factors, making them central targets of agricultural research. The variability of these compounds requires advanced extraction techniques, analytical characterization, functional evaluation through in silico analyses, in vitro antioxidant assays, microbiological and enzymatic tests, and in vivo studies. Such approaches enable assessment of antioxidant capacity, antimicrobial activity, biological effectiveness, safety, and correlations with agronomic practices. Multivariate and chemometric tools can assist data interpretation and support evaluation of product genuineness, authenticity, and traceability.
Understanding the relationships between agricultural strategies, extraction techniques, and antioxidant and biological properties makes it possible to develop plant-based materials with enhanced and standardized functionality, and this knowledge supports new applications in the nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, food, feed, and other applied sectors.
With this context in mind, this Special Issue welcomes original research papers and reviews on bioactive compounds and their modulation by agronomic practices; their extraction, chemical analyses, and functional assessment; and their emerging applications in agriculture and the applied sciences.
Dr. Roberta Tardugno
Dr. Eleonora Di Salvo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antioxidant compounds
- bioactive compounds
- plant secondary metabolites
- agronomic practices
- extraction
- antioxidant assays
- microbiological assays
- enzymatic assays
- chemical analyses
- functional properties
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