Mass Spectrometry-Based Approaches in Natural Products Research
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural products chemistry; mass spectrometry; phytochemistry; analytical instrumentation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, mass spectrometry-based approaches constitute the primary strategy for rapid advancements in natural products research, as they allow for the dereplication and quantification of bioactive compounds in plants. These compounds, including alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, and others, play essential roles in various biological processes and are of great interest across fields such as plant biochemistry, molecular biology, plant biotechnology, food sciences, agriculture, horticulture, and beyond.
This upcoming special issue will focus on currently used mass spectrometry-based strategies in natural products research. These strategies involve normally hyphenated techniques, such as liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS), which are powerful systems in the search for chemical knowledge about biological samples. Emphasis will be placed on modern strategies based on GC-MS and LC-MS to investigate bioactive compounds in plants. Other analytical approaches are also encouraged, as well as studies investigating samples with promising biological activity.
We invite researchers to contribute articles that explore the use of these analytical techniques in various applications within natural products research, from identifying known metabolites to developing innovative methodologies for complex plant matrix analysis.
This issue provides an excellent opportunity for researchers to share their latest findings and insights, furthering our collective understanding of the potential of mass spectrometry-based approaches in natural products research.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions
Prof. Dr. Felipe Moura Araújo da Silva
Dr. Rita De Cássia Saraiva Nunomura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemistry
- dereplication
- LC-MS
- GC-MS
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