Edible Horticultural Plants: Chemical Properties, Nutritional Quality and Bioactive Components

Dear Colleagues,

Plants have long been known to be a rich natural source of countless bioactive compounds. For thousands of years, they have represented invaluable active ingredients of many traditional ointments and have been an inspiration for the development of a wide array of successful pharmaceutical products. On the other hand, plants are a renewable food source, and new concepts for strategies to ensure their sustainable use will play a major role in the near future. To unlock the true potential of new, but also known, edible horticultural plants, the latter need to be scrutinized in order to identify the key bioactive components that have a beneficial effect on human health, as well as those which should be avoided (endogenous or exogenous toxic constituents, pollutants, or other chemical species with unwanted effects). Thus, this Special Issue welcomes quality contributions on the chemical properties, nutritional quality, and bioactive components of edible horticultural plants. Papers that incorporate green chemistry aspects at the core of their methodology are especially encouraged.

Dr. Alen Albreht
Guest Editor

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