Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine
Plants have been used as sources of food, feed and medicine for millennia. The ever-increasing population has, however, dramatically increased the burden on our arable land to meet nutritional demand. Concomitantly, and in part due to poor nutrition, we are faced with massive increases in chronic di...
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| author | Sreenivasulu, Nese Fernie, Alisdair R. |
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| description | Plants have been used as sources of food, feed and medicine for millennia. The ever-increasing population has, however, dramatically increased the burden on our arable land to meet nutritional demand. Concomitantly, and in part due to poor nutrition, we are faced with massive increases in chronic diseases, meaning the need for medicine has also increased. Here, we look back on research in these areas, surveying the polyphenols as a case study for health-conferring metabolites. We conclude that the tools that will allow us to breed more nutritious crops are all at hand. We stress that collaboration between plant and medical research needs to be intensified in order to improve our understanding of the bioactivities. In doing so, we attempt to draw a roadmap for the use of plants for mid-21st Century human health. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1640882025-05-14T10:24:17Z Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine Sreenivasulu, Nese Fernie, Alisdair R. biomedical engineering bioengineering biotechnology Plants have been used as sources of food, feed and medicine for millennia. The ever-increasing population has, however, dramatically increased the burden on our arable land to meet nutritional demand. Concomitantly, and in part due to poor nutrition, we are faced with massive increases in chronic diseases, meaning the need for medicine has also increased. Here, we look back on research in these areas, surveying the polyphenols as a case study for health-conferring metabolites. We conclude that the tools that will allow us to breed more nutritious crops are all at hand. We stress that collaboration between plant and medical research needs to be intensified in order to improve our understanding of the bioactivities. In doing so, we attempt to draw a roadmap for the use of plants for mid-21st Century human health. 2022-04 2024-12-19T12:53:28Z 2024-12-19T12:53:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164088 en Open Access Elsevier Sreenivasulu, Nese; Fernie, Alisdair R. 2022. Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Volume 74 p. 164-170 |
| spellingShingle | biomedical engineering bioengineering biotechnology Sreenivasulu, Nese Fernie, Alisdair R. Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| title | Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| title_full | Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| title_fullStr | Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| title_short | Diversity: current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| title_sort | diversity current and prospective secondary metabolites for nutrition and medicine |
| topic | biomedical engineering bioengineering biotechnology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164088 |
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