Polyphenols: from plants to a variety of food and nonfood uses
2015
Cheynier, Veronique | Tomas-Barberan, Francisco A. | Yoshida, Kumi | Sciences Pour l'Oenologie (SPO) ; Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) | Research group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC)
Polyphenols are major plant secondary metabolites, structurally extremely diverse, essential for a variety of functions in plants, responsible for major organoleptic and nutritional properties of plant-derived foods, and useful for numerous practical applications. During the 27th International Conference on Polyphenols and 8th Tannin Conference, held jointly in September 2014 in Nagoya, Japan (ICP2014), the latest advances in polyphenol research have been presented. These include advances in polyphenol chemistry, physicochemistry, and materials science; their biosynthesis, genetics, and metabolic engineering; and their role in plant interactions with the environment, in nutrition and health, and in natural medicine. This special issue presents a selection of research papers presented at the meeting, covering these different fields. Major recent progress and perspectives in these areas are also outlined in this introductory paper.
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