Current Research in Toxic Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 53
Special Issue Editor
Interests: toxicology of natural toxicants; particularly mycotoxins and toxic plants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The kingdom Plantae comprises about 300000 vascular plant species worldwide. Plants are not only the major source of nutrients for animals and humans, but they also play a key role in maintaining the air quality of the earth’s atmosphere by capturing CO2 and releasing O2. However, a few plant families contain species that are capable of causing adverse effects in animals or humans, usually by the ingestion of the plant or a part of it.
Among the toxicants present in toxic plants are several kinds of alkaloids, oxalates, nitrates, saponins, lectins, protease inhibitors, toxic amino acids, glycosides and tannins, to name only a few. These toxic substances can affect every organ and tissue, including the liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, muscles, bones, nervous tissue, skin and blood.
This Special Issue will accept original articles dealing with any aspect of the toxicology of toxic plants, including, but not limited to, the biology of toxic plants (botany of toxic plants), the study of toxic compounds present in toxic plants, analytical techniques used for the determination of toxicants in plants, the adverse effects of toxic plants on experimental animals, case reports of plant toxicosis in animals and humans, and treatments of toxicosis caused by toxic plants.
We hope that this Special Issue will encourage researchers from different disciplines (botany, analytical chemistry, pathology, veterinary medicine, human medicine and toxicology in general) to consider toxic plant research as a potential field of study. In many areas of the world, research on toxic plants is still in its infancy.
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Diaz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- toxic plants
- toxic alkaloids
- toxic glycoalkaloids
- plant toxicosis treatments
- toxic plant identification
- plant toxicity
- phytotoxins
- plant toxins
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