Plants Extracts: Biological Activities and Antimicrobial Properties
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2023) | Viewed by 2196
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biotechnology; heavy metals; metabolomics; plant-microbe interaction; plant science; signalling molecules
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Interests: biomolecules and biochemistry of natural products (tannin content; phenolic composition and antioxidant capacity of indigenous plants foods/feeds); toxicology and mutagenicity of medicinal plants; foods/feeds
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Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants are a natural source of bioactive compounds demonstrating a wide range of biological activity. Bioactive compounds derived from medicinal plant extracts have been used to improve human health and wellbeing for centuries. The pharmacological activity of medicinal plants derives from their secondary metabolites, which are somewhat more sparse than primary molecules, such as carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. Plant secondary metabolites are commonly responsible for the antimicrobial properties of medicinal plants and offer clues to manufacture new structural types of antimicrobial and antifungal chemicals that are comparatively safe to humans and animals. Microbial metabolites have been the target of numerous innovative biotechnology studies on developing new bioactive products capable of exerting antimicrobial activity against important phytopathogens, controlling plant diseases, and reducing the damage caused by such infections. This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to compile detailed summaries and present the most recent research findings on medicinal plant extracts, with an emphasis on their biological activity and antimicrobial properties.
Dr. Ashwil Klein
Dr. Ashwell Ndhlala
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial activity
- medicinal plants
- phytochemistry
- plant extracts
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