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Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits
Flavonoids represent a wide group of plant secondary metabolites implicated in many physiological roles, from the attraction of pollinators to the protection against biotic or abiotic stresses. Flavonoids are synthetized in a number of horticultural crops that are important components of our daily d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405037 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants7040098 |
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author | Scarano, Aurelia Chieppa, Marcello Santino, Angelo |
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description | Flavonoids represent a wide group of plant secondary metabolites implicated in many physiological roles, from the attraction of pollinators to the protection against biotic or abiotic stresses. Flavonoids are synthetized in a number of horticultural crops that are important components of our daily diet. In the last decades, the consumption of vegetables rich in antioxidants has been strongly promoted from the perspective of prevention/protection against chronic diseases. Therefore, due to their nutritional importance, several attempts have been made to enhance flavonoid levels in species of agronomic interest. In this review, we focus on the flavonoid biodiversity among the major horticultural species, which is responsible of differences among closely related species and influences the qualitative/quantitative composition. We also review the role of flavonoids in the nutritional quality of plant products, contributing to their organoleptic and nutritional properties, and the main strategies of biofortification to increase their content. |
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spelling | pubmed-63138722019-01-07 Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits Scarano, Aurelia Chieppa, Marcello Santino, Angelo Plants (Basel) Review Flavonoids represent a wide group of plant secondary metabolites implicated in many physiological roles, from the attraction of pollinators to the protection against biotic or abiotic stresses. Flavonoids are synthetized in a number of horticultural crops that are important components of our daily diet. In the last decades, the consumption of vegetables rich in antioxidants has been strongly promoted from the perspective of prevention/protection against chronic diseases. Therefore, due to their nutritional importance, several attempts have been made to enhance flavonoid levels in species of agronomic interest. In this review, we focus on the flavonoid biodiversity among the major horticultural species, which is responsible of differences among closely related species and influences the qualitative/quantitative composition. We also review the role of flavonoids in the nutritional quality of plant products, contributing to their organoleptic and nutritional properties, and the main strategies of biofortification to increase their content. MDPI 2018-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6313872/ /pubmed/30405037 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants7040098 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Scarano, Aurelia Chieppa, Marcello Santino, Angelo Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits |
title | Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits |
title_full | Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits |
title_fullStr | Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits |
title_full_unstemmed | Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits |
title_short | Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits |
title_sort | looking at flavonoid biodiversity in horticultural crops: a colored mine with nutritional benefits |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405037 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants7040098 |
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