Bioactive Metabolites from Plants

Dear Colleagues,

The plant kingdom is considered, so far, to have the largest reservoir of natural products, containing around 1 million metabolites. The greatness of plant metabolites does not rely only on numbers but on structural diversity, which is paralleled in their multifunctionality. Because of this, bioactive metabolites have been under the limelight of scientific scrutiny along the humankind story line. The spectrum of plant metabolite bioactivity includes antibacterial, antifungal, deterrent, antifeedant, allelopathic, growth promotion, insect attraction, crop bio-stimulation, medicinal, and nutraceutical effects, among others. Thus, plant metabolites have been used in several research and industrial fields, for instance, food production, cosmetics, medicine, and agronomy during preharvest and postharvest stages. The characterization and determination of plant metabolite activities involve an experimental pipeline going from in vitro to in vivo tests, that is, from laboratory to preclinical, clinical, or field trials. To achieve such goals, several steps, such as metabolite isolation, identification, quantification, formulation, and biological characterization, among others, are needed. In this context, this Special Issue is dedicated to research dealing with isolation, identification, and biological activities of plant metabolites. The scope of biological activities includes, but it is not limited to, applications in agronomic, industrial, and medical fields approached by omics and non-omics proceedings.

Dr. Luis Francisco Salomé-Abarca
Dr. Dejan Godjevac
Guest Editors

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