Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research, Volume 7

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• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781119545941
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

RECENT ADVANCES IN POLYPHENOL RESEARCH

Plant polyphenols are secondary metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of natural products. They are essential plant components for adaptation to the environment and possess a large and diverse range of biological functions that provide many benefits to both plants and humans. Polyphenols, from their structurally simplest forms to their oligo/polymeric versions (i.e. tannin and lignin), are phytoestrogens, plant pigments, antioxidants, and structural components of the plant cell wall. The interaction between tannins and proteins is involved in plant defense against predation, cause astringency in foods and beverages, and affect the nutritional and health properties of human and animal food plants.

This seventh volume of the highly regarded Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research series is edited by Jess Dreher Reed, Victor Armando Pereira de Freitas, and Stéphane Quideau, and brings together chapters written by some of the leading experts working in the polyphenol sciences today. Topics covered include:

• Chemistry and physicochemistry
• Biosynthesis, genetics and metabolic engineering
• Roles in plants and ecosystems
• Food, nutrition and health
• Applied polyphenols

Distilling the most recent and illuminating data available, this new volume is an invaluable resource for chemists, biochemists, plant scientists, pharmacognosists and pharmacologists, biologists, ecologists, food scientists and nutritionists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Achieving Complexity at the Bottom Through the Flavylium Cation‐Based Multistate
• 2 Proanthocyanidin Oligomers with Doubly Linked (A‐Type) Interflavan Connectivity
• 3 Answering the Call of the Wild: Polyphenols in Traditional Therapeutic Practice
• 4 Causes and Consequences of Condensed Tannin Variation in Populus
• 5 Matrix‐Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI‐TOF MS) of Proanthocyanidins to Determine Authenticity of Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements
• 6 Challenges in Analyzing Bioactive Proanthocyanidins
• 7 Lignin Monomers Derived from the Flavonoid and Hydroxystilbene Biosynthetic Pathways
• 8 Complex Regulation of Proanthocyanidin Biosynthesis in Plants by R2R3 MYB Activators and Repressors
• 9 Conservation and Divergence Between Bryophytes and Angiosperms in the Biosynthesis and Regulation of Flavonoid Production
• 10 Matching Proanthocyanidin Use with Appropriate Analytical Method
• 11 Imaging Polyphenolic Compounds in Plant Tissues
• Index
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