Selected and Extended Full Papers from the 2025 International Scientific Conference on Plant Biodiversity and Sustainability

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 2164

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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Guest Editors, Plants is very pleased to announce this call for papers for a Special Issue consisting of papers selected from the 2025 International Scientific Conference on Plant Biodiversity and Sustainability, which will be held online from 19 May 2025 to 22 May 2025 (https://sites.google.com/view/2025-iscpbs/home).

PhD candidates and young researchers are key actors when it comes to targeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. This conference will be a scientific event dedicated to their work and efforts and represents a meeting place facilitating the sharing of expertise and presenting the results of studies in ways that seek to enhance their formative internationalization. Interactions and connections are the most useful tools for the improvement of professional skills as part of an international research network, and the conference aims to foster interchange with speakers of high scientific relevance and to activate a far-reaching international research network. The contributors are also invited to highlight connections between their research work and selected targets among the 17 SDGs of Agenda 2030 as a strategy to improve awareness of impacts on global sustainable development. In this regard, the online approach results in the optimal solution, ensuring the intrinsic sustainability of a conference that is freely accessible to both contributors and audiences.

This proposed Special Issue welcomes a selection of the best papers from the conference that can be put forward for submission, and every attendee is entitled to a 20% discount on APC upon acceptance of their papers.

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Prof. Dr. Luigi Menghini
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Keywords

  • plant material
  • by-products
  • herbal extracts
  • metabolomics
  • secondary metabolites
  • circular economy
  • production chain
  • biological effects
  • biodiversity

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Mapping and Chemical Diversity of Baccharis dracunculifolia De Candole (1836) Essential Oil Accessed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
by Durval Reis Mariano-Junior, Diego da Paixão Alves, Camila da Silva Barbosa Pereira, Rosana Santos Cavalcante, Luisa Bule Reichenbach, Maria Eduarda Pereira Ribeiro, Igor Sampaio Fontes, Douglas Figueredo dos Reis Pinheiro, Mariana Emerick Silva, Lidiane Barbosa Pedro, André Marques dos Santos, Pedro Correa Damasceno Junior and Marco Andre Alves de Souza
Plants 2025, 14(22), 3443; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14223443 - 11 Nov 2025
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Brazil is recognized for its rich biodiversity, including aromatic species of economic importance, among which Baccharis dracunculifolia De Candole (1836) stands out. The essential oil distilled from this species exhibits biological and therapeutic activities. Despite its relevance, studies addressing the chemodiversity of this [...] Read more.
Brazil is recognized for its rich biodiversity, including aromatic species of economic importance, among which Baccharis dracunculifolia De Candole (1836) stands out. The essential oil distilled from this species exhibits biological and therapeutic activities. Despite its relevance, studies addressing the chemodiversity of this species on a broad scale remain scarce. This study aimed to map and characterize the chemical and physicochemical profiles of B. dracunculifolia essential oils from different regions of the state of Rio de Janeiro, considering the influence of geographic factors and plant sex. Fifty georeferenced accessions of B. dracunculifolia were collected in 2023 and 2025, and dried leaves were subjected to hydrodistillation. The essential oils were characterized through physicochemical analyses and chemically analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS. Essential oil yields ranged from 0.34 to 2.17%, relative density from 0.89 to 0.96 g/cm3, refractive index from 1.485 to 1.497 nD, and specific optical rotation from −12.56° to +6.80°. Sixty-two compounds were identified, predominantly oxygenated sesquiterpenes, with E-nerolidol (16.8–51.0%), spathulenol, bicyclogermacrene, and germacrene D as the main compounds. Multivariate analysis revealed five chemical profiles, all containing E-nerolidol as the major compound, indicating moderate to low chemical diversity. No significant differences were observed between the essential oils from female and male plants. However, variation in the chemical profile of the essential oil was observed as a function of year and altitude. Full article
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