Plant-Derived Natural Products: Omics Analysis and Functional Properties

Dear Colleagues,

Plant-derived natural products represent a vast reservoir of chemical diversity, playing central roles in plant development, defense, and adaptation. Many of these compounds, including polyphenols, flavonoids, terpenes, and alkaloids, are also valued for their nutritional, functional, and therapeutic properties, making them essential targets in food science, biotechnology, and health research.

The rapid progress of omics sciences, such as metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and integrated foodomics, has greatly expanded our capacity to explore the biosynthesis, regulation, and biological activity of these natural products. These approaches provide innovative strategies to identify key metabolites, elucidate molecular interactions, assess bioaccessibility and bioavailability, and connect chemical profiles with functional properties.

This Special Issue on Plant-Derived Natural Products: Omics Analysis and Functional Properties invites original research and review articles that apply omics technologies to investigate the chemistry and functions of plant metabolites. Topics may include biosynthetic pathways, functional evaluation, innovative analytical methods, mass spectrometry applications, chemometric strategies, and the valorization of crops and plant-based by-products.

Submitted manuscripts must not have been published previously or be under consideration elsewhere. We look forward to your valuable contributions.

Dr. Mariana Simões Larraz Ferreira
Dr. Carolina Thomaz Dos Santos D’almeida
Guest Editors

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