New Insights in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity

Dear Colleagues,

Plants’ wide-ranging metabolic diversity reflects the physiological context facing cells and tissues, and whole organisms. As both sessile and autotrophic organisms, plants have developed a sophisticated branched metabolic pathway, resulting in rich chemical production referred as chemodiversity. This vast chemical arsenal is used in plant defense, ecological interaction or for bioeconomical purposes, and has numerous useful applications. 

For our Special Issue, “New Insights in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity”, we are seeking submissions of cutting-edge research articles highlighting the functionality of chemodiversity in plants in an environmental, stress or even biotechnological context. Works addressing how plants modulate their chemodiversity in response to biotic and abiotic factors, and which techniques and approaches are promising for understanding these relationships and unlocking plant biodiversity, are of particular interest.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): plant omics, molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and evolution in plants’ primary and specialized (secondary) metabolism.

Dr. João Henrique Frota Cavalcanti
Dr. Diego S. Batista
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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