Antimicrobial Products from Plants: A One Health Approach (Human, Animal and Environmental Health

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to submit original research manuscripts, review articles or short communications to the Special Issue titled “Antimicrobial products from plants: a One Health approach (human, animal and environmental health)”.

The One Health approach connects the health of people to that of animals and the environment that all we living beings have in common. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the antimicrobial resistance problem as one of the battles we still have to win. There are many strategies to achieve this goal, and some of them are closely related to products obtained from plants, since plants are an endless source of new compounds.

For these reasons, this Special Issue focuses on natural compounds from plants (not plant extracts) or their synergistic combinations with commercial antibiotics that: i) have demonstrated antimicrobial activity in human and animal bacteria and/or ii) have demonstrated an ability to markedly reduce the commercial antibiotic dose and/or iii) have been subjected to an ecotoxicity evaluation in water and/or soil. To guarantee the specificity of results, studies on plant extracts are not accepted. On the other hand, to ensure the quality of the antimicrobial results, studies that simply show the antimicrobial effect using diffusion methods or that are based on unquantified compounds are also outside the scope of this topic.

Dr. Elisa Langa
Dr. María Rosa Pino-Otín
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.