Plant Flavonoids and Their Derivatives
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 15391
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flavonoids; natural products; anthocyanins; flower colors; flavonoid function
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Dear Colleagues,
Flavonoid is general name of the compounds that form a fifteen-carbon skeleton, which consists of two phenyl rings connected by a three-carbon bridge. They are divided into several classes, i.e., anthocyanins, flavonols, flavones, isoflavonoids, flavanones, dihydroflavonols, chalcones, aurones, dihydrochalcones, flavan, proanthocyanidins, etc. Moreover, numerous sorts of flavonoids occur in plants with an additional hydroxyl, methoxyl, methyl, methylenedioxyl, and/or glycosyl substitution pattern. Additionally, aromatic, aliphatic, sulfate, and prenyl groups also attach to flavonoid nucleus and their glycosides. They are basically synthesized by vascular plants and mosses and are present in leaves, flowers, roots, stems, and seeds. Thus, ca. 10,000 kinds have been reported from plants as natural compounds. Moreover, they act as antioxidants, UV shields, flower pigments, phytoalexins, allelopathy, oviposition stimulants, etc. However, although ca. 300,000 kinds of vascular plants are known in the world, reports of flavonoids are comparatively meager. In this issue, we invite manuscripts on flavonoids and related compounds as natural compounds, and their function in plants.
Dr. Tsukasa Iwashina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flavonoids
- anthocyanins
- chemical adaptation
- natural resources
- flower color
- chemotaxonomy
- function
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