Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins

This reprint focuses on the isolation and characterization of some phytotoxins and the evaluation of their biological activities for potential application in different fields. Plants and microbes are able to produce several specialized (secondary) metabolites belonging to different classes of natura...

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description This reprint focuses on the isolation and characterization of some phytotoxins and the evaluation of their biological activities for potential application in different fields. Plants and microbes are able to produce several specialized (secondary) metabolites belonging to different classes of natural compounds. Among them, phytotoxins are substances that are poisonous or toxic to plants. They seem to play an important role in plant–pathogen interactions when produced by phytopathogenic fungi or bacteria, while plant-produced phytotoxins—including allelochemicals—seem to be involved in plant–plant interactions. Thus, the determination of their chemical structure and their identification are fundamental for chemical ecology and for understanding their function. However, most of these compounds have already shown other interesting biological activities and potential applications in fields such as agriculture or medicine. In fact, some phytotoxins have already been proposed for the development of biopesticides, cosmetics, and drugs.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1530312025-02-20T13:27:20Z Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins Masi, Marco Natural products bioactive secondary metabolites chemical ecology biopesticides antibiotics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics and heat This reprint focuses on the isolation and characterization of some phytotoxins and the evaluation of their biological activities for potential application in different fields. Plants and microbes are able to produce several specialized (secondary) metabolites belonging to different classes of natural compounds. Among them, phytotoxins are substances that are poisonous or toxic to plants. They seem to play an important role in plant–pathogen interactions when produced by phytopathogenic fungi or bacteria, while plant-produced phytotoxins—including allelochemicals—seem to be involved in plant–plant interactions. Thus, the determination of their chemical structure and their identification are fundamental for chemical ecology and for understanding their function. However, most of these compounds have already shown other interesting biological activities and potential applications in fields such as agriculture or medicine. In fact, some phytotoxins have already been proposed for the development of biopesticides, cosmetics, and drugs. 2025-02-20T13:27:18Z 2025-02-20T13:27:18Z 2024 book ONIX_20250220_9783725826995_395 9783725826995 9783725827008 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/153031 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/10243 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-2700-8 10.3390/books978-3-7258-2700-8 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725826995 9783725827008 182 Basel open access
spellingShingle Natural products
bioactive secondary metabolites
chemical ecology
biopesticides
antibiotics
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics and heat
Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins
title Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins
title_full Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins
title_fullStr Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins
title_full_unstemmed Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins
title_short Biological Activities and Potential Applications of Phytotoxins
title_sort biological activities and potential applications of phytotoxins
topic Natural products
bioactive secondary metabolites
chemical ecology
biopesticides
antibiotics
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics and heat
topic_facet Natural products
bioactive secondary metabolites
chemical ecology
biopesticides
antibiotics
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics and heat
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