Plant-Derived Natural Products and Their Applications
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 36620
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopesticides; antioxidants; enzymes inhibition; neurotoxins; ecotoxicology; secondary metabolites; antifungal; antibacterial; nutraceuticals; natural anticancer
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Interests: antioxidant capacity; natural products; enzyme inhibition; phenolics
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Interests: natural products; antioxidation; functional food; human health
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Interests: discovery and development of small organic molecules and of natural product analogues or derivatives with anticancer, antibacterial and antiparasitic activity; synthesis of multitarget inhibitors and of hybrids or bioconjugates aiming at improvement of the pharmacological profile of one or more bioactive molecules
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature has served as a source of a large number of secondary metabolites that are used as medicines, agrochemicals (insecticides and herbicides) and as precursors for various industrial products. Plant-derived products have been an endless array of entities with large chemical frameworks displaying various modes of action against various organisms. The presence of diverse patterns of pharmacophores in plant-derived compounds with biologically relevant molecular properties results in frequent interactions with relevant targets. Therefore, exploration of plant-derived compounds, as well as plant–insect interactions, has led to knowledge of new leading therapeutic and agrochemical candidates useful in illustrating the continuing value of plant-derived secondary metabolites as viable scaffolds for modern new product development.
This Special Issue highlights the potential of plant extracts, secondary metabolites, and derivatives thereof as biopesticides (IGR, antifeedant and insecticides), antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, and enzyme-inhibiting entities with novel mechanisms of action, particularly those with selective target modulation.
The current Special Issue brings together ecologists, pharmacologists, chemists, toxicologists, biologists, computer-aided drug design scientists, and clinicians working as a multidisciplinary team in diverse areas with multiple applications of secondary metabolites.
Prof. Dr. Carlos L. Cespedes-Acuña
Dr. Gokhan Zengin
Prof. Dr. Zhaojun Wei
Prof. Dr. Constantinos Athanassopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant extracts
- plant-derived compounds
- antibacterial mechanism of action
- antifungal mechanism of action, resistant strains
- synthetic derivatives
- multidrug resistance
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