Bioactive Compounds from Roots, Stems, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds

Dear Colleagues,

Many roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds of medicinal plants have been used worldwide for a very long time to treat various diseases, not only as traditional medicines but also for ethnomedical purposes. Isolation and structure determination work is very important to find the exact active component of these traditional medicines and medicinal plants, as well as to study the mechanism of active compounds. Bioactive compounds derived from natural products have taken over 50% of new drug sources for the last nearly 40 years according to a review article by Drs. Newman and Cragg (2020). We need to find all the active constituents from roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds so that we can utilize them as new drug sources as well as standard constituents and systemize all natural medicines as well as functional foods.

In the present Special Issue, mainly isolation of bioactive compounds from roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds of any medicinal plants and traditional medicines will be included. However, other relevant results can be included, such as:

• New bioactive compounds from any plant parts including roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds;
• Bioactive compounds from plants with mechanism study;
• Analysis of bioactive compounds from plants using QNMR or MS-MS study including metabolomic study;
• Isolation techniques of bioactive compounds from plants;
• Standardization methods of active natural medicines or plants using active compounds.

A broad range of papers can be in this issue as long as they focus on bioactive compounds from plants. However, bioassay or mechanism studies using only plant extracts will be excluded because all the papers of this issue should be on the basis of identification of active constituents.

Prof. Dr. Eun Kyoung Seo
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.