Valuable Sources of Bioactive Natural Products from Plants, Third Edition
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 5
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Interests: pharmacognosy; phytochemistry; pharmaceutical botany; natural products; saponins; phenolic compounds; flavonoids; HPLC and LC-MS strategies in specialized natural product elucidation; metabolite profiling; antioxidants; synergism between natural products and drugs
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Interests: phytochemistry; pharmacognosy; pharmaceutical botany; natural products; phenolic compounds; sesquiterpene lactones; HPLC and LC-MS strategies in specialized natural product elucidation; acetylholinesterase inhibitors; enzyme inhibitory activity; antioxidants; obesity
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Interests: medicinal plants; phytochemistry; bioactive natural products; cultivation; pharmaceutical botany
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants are a valuable source of new bioactive compounds and promising molecular entities for use in drug development. The phytochemistry community has thus turned its focus to the medicinal value of traditional knowledge. In the last decade, a variety of hyphenated analytical techniques have been used to emphasize the potential of plants as a source of compounds with functional and medicinal relevance. On the other hand, there is an increasingly high demand for safe medicinal products with increased functionality and improved characteristics, necessitating intensive research in the field of specialized (secondary) plant metabolites. With the development of modern metabolite profiling methods and metabolomics, a holistic survey of natural extracts with valuable information on their chemical composition has become feasible. Linking in-depth compositional information to pharmacological data on annotated bioactive compounds acquired using screening strategies allows for the interpretation of results from a novel and holistic perspective. It also enables the prioritization of such natural products and the targeted isolation of new bioactive molecules of interest.
This Plants Special Issue will highlight the characterization of herbal extracts in terms of identification/annotation of plant metabolites and their potential to exert protective effects on biological systems.
Dr. Reneta Gevrenova
Dr. Dimitrina Zheleva-Dimitrova
Dr. Vessela Balabanova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- specialized metabolites
- phytochemistry
- metabolite profiling
- ethnobotany
- phytopharmacology
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