Call for Original Research and Review Papers for a Special Issue of PLANTS
The international scientific journal Plants has published a call for papers in a special issue entitled Essential Oils Extraction Methods, Chemistry and Bioactivities: New Insights and Findings.
The call is open until June 30, 2023.
According to the Scopus ranking, Plants (ISSN 2223-7747) is in the first 25% of journals (category Q1) in the field of Plant Sciences and is indexed in the world scientific database Web of Science (SCIE/SSCI) with an impact factor of IF 4.658 for 2021. The guest editors of this special issue are Dr. Mijat Božović from the University of Montenegro (Faculty of Science and Mathematics) and Dr. Rino Ragno from Sapienza University of Rome (Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine).
Ether (essential/fragrance) oils are easily volatile oily liquids (only exceptionally they can be semi-solid or solid) that are extracted from aromatic plants by various extraction methods. These secondary metabolites are produced in special cells (or groups of cells) or glandular hairs that can be found in/on different parts/organs of the plant. Chemically speaking, they represent very complex mixtures of various compounds (there can be over 200 of them) from the group of terpenoids and/or phenylpropanoids. This composition depends on numerous factors, both internal (seasonal, ontogenetic, genetic variations) and external (ecological and environmental aspects), resulting in qualitative and quantitative fluctuations that can lead to the definition of new chemotypes. The aim of this special issue is to bring together original scientific and/or review papers dealing with the isolation, chemical characterization of essential oils and the investigation of their biological activities. The focus is on the variability of the chemical composition as a result of numerous factors (e.g. harvest period, climatic factors, method of oil isolation) which has a direct impact on the manifestation of biological activity. New aspects of chemical analysis and isolation methods, as well as the application of IT technology in the area of activity prediction depending on the chemical profile, are of particular interest. All information about the journal, this special issue, and instructions for authors can be found at the following page: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special_issues/essential_oils_insights_findings