Bioactive Natural Compounds: Protecting Plants and Promoting Human Health, 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 9
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Interests: glucosinolate; isothiocyanate; myrosinase; Brassicales; nutraceuticals; biopesticides; biostimulants
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, interest in natural resources, e.g., plants, biomass processing coproducts, microorganisms, and algae, as sources of bioactive compounds has been booming worldwide. Climate, economic, and social change are the main drivers challenging the scientific community to find effective and sustainable bio-based products to meet new legislations and consumer choices. Bioactive natural compounds offer a wide variety of possible applications, ranging from plant protection to human health-promoting effects. Knowledge regarding the broad diversity of natural compounds is continuously evolving, receiving increasing attention from scientists of several disciplines involved in multidisciplinary research projects.
This Special Issue on “Bioactive Natural Compounds: Protecting Plants and Promoting Human Health” welcomes original research and reviews covering several aspects of natural compounds including, but not limited to, the following: their discovery in and from different sources; their extraction, isolation, and characterization; their biotechnological production and chemical modification; the evaluation of their in vitro and in vivo bioactivity; their role at the molecular level and the elucidation of their mechanism of action; and the investigation of their stability and functionality for potential practical application in plant protection and human health.
Dr. Gina Rosalinda De Nicola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- molecular biology
- chemical characterization
- bioactivity
- mechanism of action
- plant protection
- human health promotion
- antioxidant
- anti-inflammation
- biopesticides
- biostimulants
- nutraceuticals
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