Chemodiversity in Plant Metabolism
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Secondary metabolism is particularly important in plant development. Since plants, unlike animals, cannot move, specialized strategies for their protection and reproduction have resulted from evolutionary processes. One of the most successful strategies is to employ secondary metabolism to produce a wide range of small molecules that are used in almost every imaginable function, from defense against predators to establishing symbiotic relationships with bacteria and attracting pollinators.
The Theory of Evolution states that the adaptive characteristics of living organisms arise as a result of the selection of variants in populations. Mutations that increase the adaptability of individuals to the environment are favored. But how does this relate to molecular diversity? Considering that the production of a new metabolite has a cost, the producing organism only has an advantage if the production of this new metabolite generates benefits for its adaptation.
Primary metabolites are also recognized for their importance in ecological interactions; however, here, we focus on specialized metabolites only, as these have been the focus of many chemodiversity investigations previously published.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Jorge Ribeiro da Silva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chemodiversity
- phytochemical diversity
- plant secondary metabolism
- specialized metabolites
- biotic and abiotic stress
- ecological interactions
- chemical defense
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