Isolation and Characterization of Secondary Metabolites from Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 2009
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Plant Protection and Environment, National School of Agriculture of Meknes, Meknes, Morocco
Interests: plants; agronomy; control methods; green chemistry; medicinal plants; sustainable agriculture; natural products; environmental protection; phytochemistry; organic farming
Interests: natural product; polyphenols; antioxidants; vegetable oils; oxidation; antioxidant activity; antimicrobial activity; phytochemical
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are a remarkable source of chemicals, producing a wide range of bioactive compounds known as secondary metabolites. Instead, these compounds play a crucial role in plant defense, communication, and adaptation to their environment. They are responsible for the plant's aroma, color, taste, and resistance to pathogens, herbivores, and environmental stress. The isolation and characterization of secondary plant metabolites is a key area of research in natural product chemistry. These compounds have aroused immense interest in various fields, including pharmaceuticals and medicine (antibiotics, anticancer agents, anti-inflammatories and analgesics, antisturvites, etc.), agriculture (pesticides and herbicides, plant growth regulators, biological control agents, etc.), the food industry (flavoring agents, preservatives, etc.), cosmetics and personal care (perfumes, skin care, dyes, etc.), environmental applications (bioremediation, allelopathy, etc.). This Special Issue offers researchers a platform to publish their research results on in vitro, in vivo, and in silico studies of secondary metabolites, their isolation and characterization, and their use in various fields.
We invite you to contribute and share the latest advances by answering questions on various aspects of secondary metabolites.
Prof. Dr. Amine Assouguem
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Kara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- secondary metabolites
- phytochemistry
- extraction
- essential oil
- bioactive compounds
- purification
- plant metabolites
- molecular docking
- alkaloids
- terpenoids
- phenolics
- flavonoids
- nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- mass spectrometry (MS)
- natural products
- antimicrobial
- antioxidant
- high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
- gas chromatography (GC)
- solvent extraction
- anticancer
- anti-inflammatory
- antiviral
- antifungal
- cytotoxicity
- immunomodulatory
- neuroprotective
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