Flavonoids from Natural Products
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 260
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flavonoids; natural products; anthocyanins; flower colors; flavonoid function
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Dear Colleagues,
Flavonoid is the general name for compounds that have a fifteen-carbon skeleton, which consists of two phenyl rings (A- and B-rings) connected by a three-carbon bridge (C-ring), and are divided into several classes, e.g., anthocyanins, flavones, flavonols, chalcones, aurones, flavanones, dihydroflavonols, isoflavonoids, flavan and proanthocyanidins, biflavonoids, etc. Over 10,000 kinds of flavonoids have been reported as naturally occurring compounds. Anthocyanins were recently discovered to be antioxidant, antitumol, astoringents, etc. One of the most important functions of flavonoids may be to serve as an ultraviolet filter in land plants. Researchers found by examination of some plants that flavonoids act as UV shields. The occurrence of anthocyanins as pollinator attractants is well known as a function of the flavonoids in plants. Recently, other functions, e.g., oviposition stimulants, feeding attractants, feeding deterrents, allelopathy and phytoalexins of naturally occurring flavonoids, were reported by many authors. However, the presence of flavonoids may be known at ca. 30% of all plants on the earth.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish papers on new flavonoids; new flavonoid resources; flavonoid functions in plants including UV shield, phytoalexins, allelopathy, oviposition stimulants, feeding attractants, and feeding deterrent; the contributions of flavonoids including anthocyanins to flower colors; and so on.
Dr. Tsukasa Iwashina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flavonoids
- natural products
- anthocyanins
- flower colors
- flavonoid function
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