Plant secondary metabolites (SMs) are not only a useful array of natural products but also an
important part of plant defense system against pathogenic attacks and environmental …

Caffeoylquinic acids (CQAs) are specialized plant metabolites we encounter in our daily life.
Humans consume CQAs in mg‐to‐gram quantities through dietary consumption of plant …

Anthocyanins are important health-promoting pigments that make a major contribution to the
quality of fruits. The biosynthetic pathway leading to anthocyanins is well known and the key …

Light is one of the most important environmental factors affecting flavonoid biosynthesis in
plants. The absolute dependency of light to the plant development has driven evolvement of …

Quality of berries is a difficult concept to describe objectively. The aim of this review is, to
better define the concept of quality in berries, and summarize the main pre-harvest factors …

Fruits and aerial parts of lingonberry could be better developed as dietary supplements if the
composition in bioactive phenolic compounds and the best period for collection were known …

Consumers' demand for healthier foods with functional properties has had a clear influence
on the food industry and in this sense, they have been attaching natural sources of bioactive …

The seasonal variations of the content and diversity of phenolic compounds, as well as the
antioxidant activity of leaves, stems and fruits of bilberry collected in May, July and …

This study was performed to evaluate and compare the in vitro antioxidant, antimicrobial,
and antimutagenic activities, and the polyphenolic content of the Nord-West Romanian wild …

To gain insight into how anthocyanin biosynthesis is controlled by light in fruit, transcriptome
and metabolome analyses were performed in the Chinese sand pear cultivar …