Plant Secondary Natural Products

Dear Colleagues,

Plant extracts that were used in traditional medicine since human recollection, are rich of pharmaceutical active substances. These plant secondary natural products represent the scaffolds of many drugs used in modern medicine. The identification and isolation are prerequisites for their chemical or biotechnological production. Moreover, secondary metabolites are involved in the plant defense against pathogens. The development of resistant plants or drugs that are more human and ecosystem friendly will reduce the use of chemical pesticides that destroy our ecosystem. Finally yet importantly, plant secondary metabolites are used as coloring-, flavoring- or texturizing agents in food industry and are omnipresent in everyday life.

Plant phytochemicals are an amazing research field and the recent developments in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and systems biology enabled the possibility to produce these value-added molecules in an industrial scale.

This Special Issue (including research articles, reviews, and short communications) will be dedicated to the state-of-the-art research questions compromising plant secondary metabolites:

• Identification
• Extraction
• Structure elucidation
• Diversity
• Bioactivity
• Elucidation of biosynthetic routes
• Plant-based production

Dr. Felix Stehle
Guest Editor

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