Special Issue "Plant Essential Oil with Biological Activity"
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Natural Products; Microbiology; Plant Pathology; Antimicrobial Activities; Bioactive Secondary Metabolites
Interests: plant-based pharmaceutical compounds; natural products; bioactive secondary metabolites; plant essential oils
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Interests: agricultural and environmental chemistry; environmental botany; soil ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal and MDPI (the pioneer in scholarly open access publishing) will publish a Special Issue on “Plant Essential Oil with Biological Activity”. Plant essential oils (PEOs), extracted from many aromatic and medicinal plants, have been used in folk medicine and often represent an important part of the traditional pharmacopoeia: they have a long history of use, in folk medicine, as antimicrobial agents, to control several human and phyto-pathogens. In the last decades, research in this field has gained great momentum, especially from many research/medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies: many PEOs have been registered as effective alternatives to chemical and synthetic antimicrobials as well as have been used effectively in the food industry as antioxidants and anticarcinogens. The current special issue discusses the chemical composition and biological-pharmaceutical activities of some important PEOs and their single constituents. Detailed information regarding the mechanisms, possible mode of actions, and factors affecting these activities, such as geographical origins, environmental conditions, nutritional status, the extraction methods, are of great interest.
Prof. Hazem Salaheldin Elshafie
Prof. Laura De Martino
Dr. Adriano Sofo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- essential oils
- antimicrobial activity
- cytotoxicity
- phytotoxicity
- antioxidant
- phytopathogens
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Quality attributes and storage of tomato fruits as affected by an eco-friendly, essential oil-based product
Authors: Panayiota Xylia; Irene Ioannou; Antonios Chrysargyris; Menelaos Stavrinides; Nikolaos Tzortzakis
Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus
Abstract: The preservation of fresh produce quality is a major aim in the food industry since consumers demand safe and of high nutritional value products. The last decades there is a turn towards the use of eco-friendly, natural products (i.e. essential oils-EOs) in an attempt to reduce chemical-based sanitizing agents (i.e. chlorine and chlorine-based agents). The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an eco-friendly product (EP - based on rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils) and two different application methods (vapor and dipping) on the quality attributes of tomato fruits throughout storage at 11 oC for 14 days. The results indicated that overall, the EP was able to maintain the quality of tomato fruits. Dipping application was found to affect less the quality attributes of tomato, such as titratable acidity, ripening index and antioxidant activity compared to the vapor application method. Vapor application of 0.4% EP increased fruit’s antioxidant activity, whereas tomatoes dipped in EP solution presented decreased damage index (hydrogen peroxide and lipid peroxidation levels), activating enzymes antioxidant capacity (catalases and peroxidases). Moreover, higher EP concentration (up to 0.8%) resulted to a less acceptable product compared to lower concentration (0.4%). Overall, the results from the present study suggest that the investigated EP can be used for the preservation of fresh produce instead of the current commercial sanitizing agent (chlorine), however, the method of application and conditions of application must be further assessed for every commodity tested.