Botanical Standardization and Metabolic Profiling
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: extraction technologies; separation techniques; metabolomics; molecular mechanism and signal transduction pathway
Interests: pharmacology & therapeutics; biomedical physiology & engineering; serious games in education; game-based learning & AI-based assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants, functional foods, botanicals, and other plant-derived materials are widely used. However, these materials or their products often contain multiple compounds and may lack clearly defined active ingredients. Among other uses, many of them have been extensively employed in functional foods and traditional medicine.
To ensure their safe and effective use, chemical standardization is essential. Environmentally friendly methods for standardization are especially desirable, as highlighted in various reports. Once standardized, it is important to investigate the biological properties of these extracts using cell lines, animal models, and human studies. Approaches such as chemical fingerprinting, identification of marker compounds, and analysis of metabolic shifts in biological systems can provide critical insights.
This Special Issue invites contributions on the latest development in the chemical standardization of botanical extracts, as well as studies of their biological properties. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, gene expression, differential protein expression, metabolic profiling, and related analyses.
Dr. Eng Shi Ong
Dr. Chen Huei Leo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plant
- functional food
- chemical standardization
- extraction
- biological assay
- antioxidant properties
- metabolic profile
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