Plant Extracts – Importance in Sustainable Horticulture
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 3687
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tandem mass spectrometry; laser microscopy; polymerase chain reaction; spectroscopy; supercritical CO2-extraction
2. Laboratory of Supercritical Fluid Research and Application in Agrobiotechnology, Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
3. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, 190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
4. Institute of Life Science and Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, 690922 Vladivostok, Russia
Interests: phytochemistry; toxicology; environmental studies
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Dear Colleagues,
Plant extracts, for the most part, are compound extracts of the polyphenol group, most widely represented by flavonoids. Laboratories worldwide have developed many modern types of extraction methods, one of the most gentle and green methods of plant and food matrix extraction at present being supercritical CO2 extraction.
Flavonoids are secondary metabolites, mainly consisting of a benzopyrone ring bearing phenolic or polyphenolic groups at different positions. They are most commonly found in fruits, herbs, stems, cereals, nuts, vegetables, flowers and seeds. The presence of bioactive phytochemical constituents in these different plants grants them medicinal value and biological activity.
Flavonoids have been used in natural dyes, cosmetics, skin care products and antiwrinkle skin agents, with the most pronounced application of these polyphenols, however, being in the field of medicine. Flavonoids have been used extensively as anticancer, antimicrobial, antiviral, antiangiogenic, antioxidant, neuroprotective, antitumor and antiproliferative agents, also capable of preventing cardiometabolic disorders and displaying a better preservation of cognitive performance with aging.
Dr. Mayya P. Razgonova
Prof. Dr. Kirill S. Golokhvast
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant extracts
- types of extraction
- supercritical CO2 extraction
- bioactive constituents
- secondary metabolites
- polyphenols
- flavonoids
- anthocyanins
- flavones
- flavonols
- flavan-3-ols
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