Advances in Essential Oils from Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 7100
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant secondary metabolism; natural products chemistry; leads finding; metabolomics; plant biotechnology
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Interests: pharmaceutical analysis; pharmaceutical chemistry; medicinal plants; adaptogens; GC-MS; LC-MS
2. Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Interests: biomaterials; polymers; polysaccharides; nanomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Essential oils are sources of valuable compounds of a large variety of traditional applications. The huge diversity of terpenes, exceeding more than 30,000 compounds, attracts attention to essential oils, in the component composition of which they are principal constituents. This constituent variability also determines a wide range of pharmacological activities, including antiseptic, revulsive, cooling, local anesthetic, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, appetite-stimulating, cholagogue and choleretic, diuretic, and sedative, in dermatological and inhalation preparations, in aromatherapy, as flavoring agents in pharmaceutical manufacture, in perfumery and cosmetics, in the manufacture of soaps and detergents, and in the food (spices), alcohol, and tobacco industries. However, essential oils could offer many novel possible applications in different fields such as medicine, cosmetics, or agriculture. Of particular interest for this Special Issue are essential oils from endemic plants.
Submissions are invited on related topics that include, but are not limited to:
- The chemical analysis of essential oils obtainedfrom endemic plants;
- The histochemical analysis of essential oil-bearing plants;
- The biological activity of essential oils;
- Essential oils as a "green" alternative of pesticides.
Prof. Dr. Milen I. Georgiev
Dr. Stanislava Ivanova
Dr. Cédric Delattre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- essential oils
- gas chromatography
- pharmacological activity
- endemic plants