Phytochemical Omics in Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural and Bio-derived Molecules".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 182641
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioactive compounds; chromatography techniques; medicinal plants; phytochemicals; plant biotechnology; plant growth regulators; plant secondary metabolites
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Dear Colleagues,
Since prehistoric times, medicinal plants (herbs) and tonics have been used in traditional medical practices for curing diseases and to provide health benefits. A huge array of phytochemicals have been identified in medicinal plants, such as carotenoids, phenolic acids, flavonoids, and lignans, which have a wide range of biological activities, including antioxidant, antibacterial effect, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotection, and so on. Generally, naturally occurring compounds possess complicate bioactive effects and their efficacy is difficult to be clarified. Therefore, comprehensive approaches on the synthesis and biological function of phytochemicals are needed.
In the past decade, multi-omics technology is an emerging field as a powerful tool to gain deep-insights into biological systems. This Special Issue aims to integrate recent innovative approaches using high-throughput technologies (omics), such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, as well as bioinformatics and other related topics, including biotechnology attempts, to make significant progress in understanding the relationship between phytochemicals and human health.
Dr. Jen-Tsung Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- bioinformatics
- biotechnology
- herbs
- genomics
- medicinal plant
- metabolomics
- omics
- phytochemicals
- proteomics
- transcriptomics
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