Polyphenols: From Plants to a Variety of Food and Nonfood Uses.
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.
UMR1083 Sciences pour l'œnologie, INRA , 2 place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France.|Research group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, CEBAS-CSIC , P.O. Box 164, Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.|Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University , Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
Véronique
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Cheynier
UMR1083 Sciences pour l'œnologie, INRA , 2 place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France.|Research group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, CEBAS-CSIC , P.O. Box 164, Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.|Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University , Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
Francisco A
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Tomas-Barberan
UMR1083 Sciences pour l'œnologie, INRA , 2 place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France.|Research group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, CEBAS-CSIC , P.O. Box 164, Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.|Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University , Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
Kumi
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Yoshida
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D059808:Polyphenols / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D003226:Congresses as Topic
D010936:Plant Extracts; D059808:Polyphenols