The role of polyphenols in abiotic stress response: The influence of molecular structure

D Šamec, E Karalija, I Šola, V Vujčić Bok… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Abiotic stressors such as extreme temperatures, drought, flood, light, salt, and heavy metals
alter biological diversity and crop production worldwide. Therefore, it is important to know …

Diverse physiological roles of flavonoids in plant environmental stress responses and tolerance

A Shomali, S Das, N Arif, M Sarraf, N Zahra, V Yadav… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flavonoids are characterized as the low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds
universally distributed in planta. They are a chemically varied group of secondary …

Plant secondary metabolites produced in response to abiotic stresses has potential application in pharmaceutical product development

K Yeshi, D Crayn, E Ritmejerytė, P Wangchuk - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) are vital for human health and constitute the skeletal
framework of many pharmaceutical drugs. Indeed, more than 25% of the existing drugs …

Are flavonoids effective antioxidants in plants? Twenty years of our investigation

G Agati, C Brunetti, A Fini, A Gori, L Guidi, M Landi… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Whether flavonoids play significant antioxidant roles in plants challenged by photooxidative
stress of different origin has been largely debated over the last few decades. A critical review …

Flavonoids as important molecules of plant interactions with the environment

J Mierziak, K Kostyn, A Kulma - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
Flavonoids are small molecular secondary metabolites synthesized by plants with various
biological activities. Due to their physical and biochemical properties, they are capable of …

Chemistry and biological activities of flavonoids: an overview

S Kumar, AK Pandey - The scientific world journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There has been increasing interest in the research on flavonoids from plant sources
because of their versatile health benefits reported in various epidemiological studies. Since …

Flavonoids as antioxidants in plants: location and functional significance

G Agati, E Azzarello, S Pollastri, M Tattini - Plant science, 2012 - Elsevier
Stress-responsive dihydroxy B-ring-substituted flavonoids have great potential to inhibit the
generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reduce the levels of ROS once they are …

The effect of drought stress on polyphenolic compounds and expression of flavonoid biosynthesis related genes in Achillea pachycephala Rech. f

S Gharibi, BES Tabatabaei, G Saeidi, M Talebi… - Phytochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effect of drought stress on the amount of phenolic and flavonoid
compounds as well as H 2 O 2 and malondialdehyde (MDA) in Achillea pachycephala. The …

[HTML][HTML] Defense potential of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants under UV-B stress

S Takshak, SB Agrawal - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation has, for many decades now, been widely studied with
respect to its consequences on plant and animal health. Though according to NASA, the …

Flavonoids as antioxidants and developmental regulators: relative significance in plants and humans

C Brunetti, M Di Ferdinando, A Fini, S Pollastri… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Phenylpropanoids, particularly flavonoids have been recently suggested as playing primary
antioxidant functions in the responses of plants to a wide range of abiotic stresses …