Main description:

Phytochemicals have been present in human diet and life since the birth of mankind, including the consuming of plant foods and the application of herbal treatments. This coevolutionary interaction of plants and people has resulted in humans' reliance on food and medicinal plants as sources of macronutrients, micronutrients, and bioactive phytochemicals. Phytochemicals can be used as adjuvant agents and sensitizers in traditional antibiotic and anticancer therapy, reducing the potential of selecting resistant microbial strains and cancer cells. Recent Frontiers of Phytochemicals addresses the many processes of potential phytochemical evaluation of known sources, with a focus on phytochemical and pharmacological evaluations, and computational research into the structures and pharmacological mechanisms of natural products and their applications in medicine, food and biotech.

Contents:

1. Phytochemicals: Recent trends in food, pharmacy and biotechnology
2. Novel extraction and characterization methods for phytochemicals
3. Primary and secondary plant metabolites: Phytochemical families
4. Phytochemicals and cancer
5. Bioactivity of essential oils and its medicinal applications
6. Marine based phytochemicals for biomedical and pharmaceutical research
7. Phytochemicals in biofilm inhibition
8. Role of natural pigments in consumer based industrial revolution 4.0
9. Phytochemicals as safe fortification agent in fermented food industries
10. Big data in phytochemical research
11. QSAR and phytochemicals
12. Deep learning and AI/ML approach in phytochemical-based drug discovery
13. Molecular docking study of bioactive phytochemicals against infectious diseases
14. Phytochemicals in structure-based drug discovery
15. Future perspective phytochemical research