Flavylium compounds are a well-known family of pigments because they are prevalent in the
plant kingdom, contributing to colors over a wide range from shades of yellow-red to blue in …

Salt stress is a severe type of environmental stress. It adversely affects agricultural
production worldwide. The overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is the most …

Flavonoids are interesting molecules synthetized by plants. They can be found abundantly
in seeds and fruits, determining the color, flavor, and other organoleptic characteristics, as …

Plants, fungi, and microorganisms are equipped with biosynthesis machinery for producing
thousands of secondary metabolites. These compounds have important functions in nature …

The current world of climate change, global warming and a constantly changing
environment have made life very stressful for living entities, which has driven the evolution of …

Chalcone is an aromatic ketone that forms the central core of many important biological
compounds, which are known as chalcones. Chalcones are the biogenetic precursors of …

During their evolution, plants have acquired the ability to produce a huge variety of
compounds. Unlike the specialized metabolites that accumulate in limited numbers of …

The aim of this review is to describe the chemical characteristics of compounds present in
honey, their stability when heated or stored for long periods of time and the parameters of …

Lignin is conventionally defined as being formed by the oxidative polymerization of three
main monolignols, p-coumaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol, and sinapyl alcohol, that are …

Natural anthocyanin pigments/dyes and phenolic copigments/co-dyes form noncovalent
complexes, which stabilize and modulate (in particular blue, violet, and red) colors in …