Journal of Plant Sciences

Special Issue

Plant Defense Bioactive Molecules with Biotechnological Potential

  • Submission Deadline: Oct. 30, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: João Xavier da Silva Neto
About This Special Issue
With the civilization beginnings, after the human being ceased to live as nomad, the plants were exploited in a extractive way. They were and still are used as an important source of nutrients (proteins, essential amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids) and raw material for the construction of houses and clothes. The wild plants were domesticated and posteriorly cultivated on large scale, with use in the manufacture of industrialized food and animal feed. With the growth of the world population (more food consumption), use of plant products in different industrial sectors such as cosmetics, food, construction, textiles and pharmaceuticals evidence the importance of scientific research focusing on plant species known and in vegetable specimens not yet well studied. Thus, it is necessary the constant search for plant molecules that can present biological activities with potential application in the control of pests and pathogens in the agricultural and clinical importance This special issue are focused in bringing together relevant works that report the purification process of plant molecules (primary or secondary metabolite) with biological activity. These activities may be against pathogens and pests of agricultural and agricultural importance, as well as pathogens of clinical importance. The use of vegetable extracts as nutracelticals and in the control of chronic diseases (diabetes, obesity, etc.) of the human being will be approached.

Aims and Scope:

  1. Microbiology
  2. Biochemistry
  3. Plant molecules
  4. Ethnopharmacology
  5. Food nutrition
  6. Pharmacology
Lead Guest Editor
  • João Xavier da Silva Neto

    Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Ceara, Ceará, Brazil

Guest Editors
  • Helen Paula Silva da Costa

    Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Ceara, Ceará, Brazil

  • Lucas Dias

    Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil

  • Luiz Francisco Wemmenson Gonçalves Moura

    Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

  • Thiago Fernandes Martins

    Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Ceará, Ceará, Brazil

  • Ana Paula Apolinário da Silva

    Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

  • Larissa Alves Lopes

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil

  • Bhavin Bhatt

    Shree Ramkrishna Institute of Computer Education and Applied Sciences, Surat, India