Plant Secondary Metabolites with Medicinal, Nutritional, and Cosmetic Values

Dear Colleagues,

The plant kingdom still attracts the attention of researchers as a valuable source of natural products with medicinal, nutritional, and cosmetic values. Since ancient times, plants have been used as natural medicines, as well as valuable ingredients of the daily human diet as vegetables and spices and serve as cosmetic products.

Currently, thanks to progress in the development of modern analytical techniques and environmentally friendly isolation methods, it is possible to obtain high-purity natural products from plant sources, which can then be tested for their various biological activities. Knowledge in this area is constantly expanding, so we would like to encourage researchers to share new discoveries regarding secondary metabolites isolated from plants, including the mechanisms of their pharmacological effects. We invite manuscripts on the analysis, isolation, and assessment of the biological activity of the single components as well as extracts of plants, upon their comprehensive chemical characterization.

Authors are encouraged to contribute original research articles and systematic reviews to expand our knowledge on the composition and the therapeutic potential of biological material derived from plant sources.

Submissions to this Special Issue do not have to be limited to the areas mentioned in the keywords.

We are looking forward to your contributions.

Dr. Magdalena Bartnik
Dr. Agnieszka Ludwiczuk
Guest Editors

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• phytochemicals
• natural products
• chemical composition
• phytochemical analysis
• chromatography
• bioactivity assessment
• antioxidant effect
• antimicrobial activity
• anti-inflammatory activity
• nutritional value
• cosmetic ingredients