Innovative Health-Promoting Applications of Byproducts from Agricultural Production

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit original articles to this Special Issue entitled “Innovative Health-Promoting Applications of Byproducts from Agricultural Production (Edition 2023)”.

This Special Issue (SI) aims to highlight all aspects related to the preparation, extraction and phytochemical and morphological investigations of plant material derived from high-quality waste byproducts of medicinal, aromatic, and food plants. The aim of the present SI is focused on the new worldwide research interest in the valorization of productive chains that are improvable in terms of sustainability. This SI will consider studies that are related to this aspect from multiple points of view, namely, extract optimization, with particular regard for biocompatible solvents and processes and comparative studies of extraction techniques.

Manuscripts describing at least one of the following items are welcome:

-Description of plant materials and crude extracts: morphological analysis, parameters of the extraction, quantitative analysis of secondary metabolites (qualitative analyses are accepted only if they refer to untargeted metabolomics analysis, witnessed by HPLC-MS data);

-Pharma-toxicological investigations performed at multiple levels: in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo studies);

-Innovative approach-based component–target analysis and alternative pharma-toxicological methods are encouraged, as well.

The present Special Issue is also part of the third mission activities of the “Giardino dei Semplici” botanical garden, which is operated by the “G. d’Annunzio” University within the Department of Pharmacy as the elective place where academic innovation meets the reality of productive chains.

As a concluding remark, all contributors are invited to highlight the connection between their research and selected targets among the 17 SDGs of the Agenda 2030.

Dr. Claudio Ferrante
Prof. Dr. Luigi Menghini
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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.

• plant material
• by-products
• herbal extracts
• metabolomics
• secondary metabolites
• circular economy
• production chain
• biological effects