Toxic Plant-Derived Metabolites
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 53
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pesticides and biopesticides; natural extracts of terrestrial and marine plants; secondary metabolites; toxicity assessment; liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pesticides and biopesticides; natural extracts of terrestrial and marine plants; secondary metabolites; toxicity assessment; liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biopesticides and effects on insects; plant secondary metabolites in medicine; animal physiology, especially developmental biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the growing awareness of the toxicity of synthetic substances, a growing interest in natural substances that possess biological activity has been observed in recent decades. Plants synthesize a wide variety of metabolites of different structures and chemical properties. Depending on the dose or concentration, they may show health-promoting, therapeutic, or toxic activity. Among such substances are, for example, alkaloids, terpenoids, glucosinolates, phenolic compounds, tannins, and others. To tackle toxicity, antifungal, antibacterial, or zoocidal processes are already used in crop and food protection. Cytotoxic properties of plant metabolites are used for anticancer or antiparasitic drugs. On the other hand, the mechanisms of their toxic activity have not been entirely described. Toxic plant metabolites may pollute ecosystems and harm food webs. Therefore, there is a need to continue and develop studies on either the beneficial or negative effects of plant metabolites on the biosphere, from the subcellular level to whole ecosystems.
For this Special Issue, we invite scientists focusing on various aspects of plant metabolites. The research articles on the toxic activity of plant products in pharmacological, medicinal, agricultural, and environmental aspects are welcomed. Also, the research papers describing the possible application of these substances in various branches of human activity, namely agriculture, medicine, food protection, etc., are highly expected. Of course, basic studies that are crucial for understanding the mechanism of action of plant metabolites are invaluable and invited. We are also interested in reviews, perspectives, opinions, protocols, and other methodological papers showing state-of-the-art methods and the latest progress in the field of plant metabolites’ toxicity.
Dr. Zbigniew Adamski
Dr. Laura Scrano
Dr. Karolina Walkowiak-Nowicka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant metabolites
- secondary metabolites
- alkaloids
- terpenoids
- glucosinolates
- phenolic compound tannins
- natural pesticides
- cytotoxicity
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