Variability of Plant Specialized Metabolism: Causes, Consequences and Possibilities
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 5273
Special Issue Editor
Interests: phytochemistry; plant specialized metabolites; plant extract bioactivity; biotic stress; abiotic stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue of the journal Plants covers the effect of different genetic and/or environmental challenges causing variability/adaptability of plant specialized metabolism. Plasticity of the plant specialized metabolism is reflected in qualitative and quantitative adjustments of compounds depending on internal and/or external conditions. It is known that climate conditions, for example, cause significant changes in phytochemical profiles, however those changes are not universal and are highly dependent on plant species, developmental stages, tissue, etc. Likewise, different pathogens will cause different changes in the specialized metabolism of a certain plant species, and vice versa, the same pathogen will cause different perturbations in the specialized metabolism of different plant hosts. The aim of this Special Issue is to present papers dealing with the consequences of such plant specialized metabolism plasticity (e.g., changes in concentration of different metabolites, synthesis of new compounds, genotype and/or phenotype adjustment (ecotype and/or yield, respectively), bioactivity and bioavailability changes), and possibilities like the use of a specialized metabolites profile as an indicator of stress in the environment, boosting of specific metabolites in order to produce a value-added plant food, screening of specialized metabolism changes for prediction models, etc.
Dr. Ivana Sola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antioxidants
- cytotoxicity
- flavonoids
- hydroxycinnamic acids
- hydroxybenzoic acids
- phenolic acids
- phenolics
- total proteins
- sugars
- tannins
- anthocyanins
- proanthocyanidins
- chlorophylls
- carotenoids
- porphyrins
- glucosinolates
- bioactivity
- biopotential
- plant specialized metabolites
- value-added food
- climate change
- adaptation of specialized metabolism to environmental challenges
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- regulation/modulation of plant specialized metabolism
- interactions of specialized metabolites with nucleic acids and proteins
- phytochemistry