Bioactive Compounds in Plants: Store House of Modern Drugs

Dear Colleagues,

Bioactive compounds from plants like carotenoids, glucosinolates, bioactive peptides, polyphenols, tannins, and alkaloids. These compounds have been subject of studies for their health-promoting properties and can be used in the animal feed industry, the functional food and nutraceuticals industries, the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and in agriculture as natural biocides to prevent the use of synthetic pesticides. The structural diversity of bioactive compounds and their almost ubiquitous presence in plants sets a task in optimizing new extraction strategies that are environmentally friendly. Moreover, for their uses in human health, there has been increasing research on encapsulation strategies for enhancing the overall bioavailability of bioactive compounds. Furthermore, due to the increasing incidence of different types of cancer associated with the prolonged use of pesticides, natural compounds from plants are now being formulated and used. This Special Issue of Plants welcomes all types of research articles which address the use of bioactive compounds in multidisciplinary applications.

Dr. Erick Paul Gutiérrez-Grijalva
Dr. José Basilio Heredia
Dr. Jayanta Kumar Patra
Guest Editors

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