Metabolism and Composition Analysis of Nutritional Quality of Agricultural Products

Dear Colleagues,

As living standards rise, more and more people pay close attention to the nutritional quality of agricultural products. Agricultural products not only contain nutrients, including proteins, functional dietary fiber, and starch, but also have an abundance of phytochemicals, including amino acids, organic acids, lipids, vitamins, phenolics, phytosterols, etc. Many phytochemicals have health-promoting benefits, such as inhibiting certain cancers and promoting cardiovascular health. The content of these phytochemicals in agricultural products depends on cultivars, cultivation patterns, climatic conditions, harvest times, storage conditions, quality grades, etc. Metabolomics can examine a broad range of compounds with different chemical natures and solubilities in organisms and provide information about intensity changes. Metabolomics approaches also reveal novel connections between metabolites and biological characteristics under various cultivation and process conditions, geographical distributions, contaminant and environmental stressors and genetic variations.

This Special Issue of Metabolites, “Metabolism and Composition Analysis of Nutritional Quality of Agricultural Products”, will not only focus on the discovery and identification of phytochemicals relating to the nutrition and quality of agricultural products, but will also reveal the difference of the metabolism and accumulation of phytochemicals in agricultural products among various cultivar types, cultivation patterns, climatic conditions, harvest times and storage conditions. Manuscripts dealing with other challenging issues are also highly desired. Topics to be covered in this Special Issue include the development and application of new metabolomics methods, the mining and identification of new metabolites, the regulation and metabolism of nutrients, the comparison of nutritional constituents, the nutritional quality evaluation of agricultural products, etc.

Dr. Yong Li
Dr. Xiangyang Yu
Dr. Hui-Wen Gu
Guest Editors

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