Impact of Aromatic Plants and Their Extracts on Insect Models for Nutritional, Medicinal, and Crop Protection Research
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 1
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Interests: natural extracts; food components; nutraceuticals; antioxidants; lipids
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Dear Colleagues,
Aromatic plants represent a source of bioactive compounds or dietary supplements for human health and nutrition. Isolated, standardized extracts and pure compounds from aromatic plants provide unlimited opportunities for discovering new drug leads for various pharmaceutical and ecological applications. Essential and fixed oils from aromatic plants, acting as signals in plant–environment and plant–insect communication, are gaining substantial traction as potential novel bioinsecticides. The role of essential oils in stored-product insect pest control is well-established. Extracts from aromatic plants have been proposed as eco-friendly approaches to increase the nutritional and nutraceutical value of edible insects, widening their commercial applications. Moreover, insects are valuable as model organisms to assess the effect of bioactive extracts and isolated compounds from aromatic plants in nutritional, medical, and pharmacological studies.
This Special Issue may include full articles and reviews on new extraction procedures, the isolation and characterization of extracts, fractions, and pure compounds from aromatic plants, and exploration of their bioactivity in insect models, focusing on the chemical and biological properties that could potentially be used for ecological, pharmaceutical, nutritional, and nutraceutical applications.
For this purpose, we invite colleagues to share their recent research on this topic. Original research and review articles are equally welcome.
Dr. Antonella Rosa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aromatic plants
- bioactive extracts
- volatiles
- insect models
- edible insects
- olfaction
- bioinsecticides
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