Bioactive Plant Compounds with Antioxidant and Health-Promoting Properties

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, there is a search for body-safe, natural, and health-promoting biologically active compounds that do not cause side effects when applied to the body. Biologically active compounds, including antioxidants effective in action, are found in lower plants among others—microalgae and macroalgae, lichens, bryophytes, and ferns—as well as in various raw materials of higher plants from many groups, e.g. herbs, vegetables, fruit plants, ornamental plants, and crops. The extracted phytochemicals are used as ingredients in various pharmaceutical preparations, as well as cosmetic and nutraceutical formulations. The health-promoting effects of plant natural metabolites are mainly related to the alleviation of oxidative stress, and thus reduce the risk of diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular, atherosclerosis, and neurodegenerative diseases.

The Special Issue aims to cover the following topics:

1. Biologically active chemical compounds;
2. Primary and secondary metabolites;
3. Antioxidants;
4. Phytotherapy;
5. Comparative analyses of phytochemicals of lower and higher plants;
6. Secretory structures involved in exosecretion and endosecretion of various metabolites;
7. Health-promoting aspect of primary and secondary metabolites;
8. Environmental biodiversity.

⚙️

Dr. Renata Matraszek-Gawron
Dr. Mirosława Chwil
Guest Editors

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