Diversity of Chemical Structures and Biosynthesis of Polyphenols in Nut-Bearing Species.

ABSTRACT: Nuts, such as peanut, almond, and chestnut, are valuable food crops for humans being important sources of fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and polyphenols. Polyphenols, such as flavonoids, stilbenoids, and hydroxycinnamates, represent a group of plant-specialized (secondary) metabolites which are characterized as health-beneficial antioxidants within the human diet as well as physiological stress protectants within the plant. In food chemistry research, a multitude of polyphenols contained in culinary nuts have been studied leading to the identification of their chemical properties and bioactivities. Although functional elucidation of the biosynthetic genes of polyphenols in nut species is crucially important for crop improvement in the creation of higher-quality nuts and stress-tolerant c

SUBMITTER: Aneklaphakij C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8056029 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature