Bio-Active Compounds in Horticultural Plants—2nd Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1191
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant physiology; plant biochemistry; phycology; secondary metabolites
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Dear Colleagues,
Horticultural plants contain a significant number of micronutrients, vitamins, and natural bioactive compounds (NBCs), which possess a variety of biological activities, such as antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, anticancer, antidiarrheal, antihypertensive, antimutagenic, and anti-inflammatory activities, among other things. The isolation, analysis, and characterization of these compounds within these extracts makes it is possible to understand why they exhibit these diverse characteristic activities, as well as the chemical metabolism of compounds that occurs in horticultural plants. There is also a significant research challenge: to improve the extraction of NBCs from different horticultural plants in a sustainable way, according to circular economy principles, setting up new methods and processes. The need to identify the best “extraction” conditions and technologies, in order to improve the release of NBCs from the plant matrix in which they are encased, is also becoming an increasingly important goal too. This Special Issue will highlight the research of new potential NBCs with important biological activities from different horticultural plants, as well as the biochemical characterization of plant extracts with important biological properties, focusing attention to the used extraction methodology.
Dr. Enrico Doria
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- isolation and analysis of compounds
- herbal and plant extracts
- quality control
- functional foods
- herbal drugs
- profiling
- standardized processing
- characteristic compounds
- bioactive compounds
- metabolites
- phytochemicals
- metabolomics
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