Flavonoids are specialized metabolites largely widespread in plants where they play
numerous roles including defense and signaling under stress conditions. These compounds …

The significance of polyphenols, with emphasis to flavonoids, in the responses of
Mediterranean plants to unfavorable environments, is discussed based on their ability to …

Flavonoids make a relevant contribution to the response mechanisms of higher plants to a
plethora of abiotic stresses. In addition to the long-reported functions as screeners of …

Flavonoids are a large group of plant phenolics, including almost 10,000 different
compounds with a common chemical structure consisting of two aromatic rings, joined by a …

Efficient detoxification of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is thought to play a key role in
enhancing the tolerance of plants to abiotic stresses. Although multiple pathways, enzymes …

Mediterranean plants have evolved a complex antioxidant defense system to cope with
summer drought. Flavonoids, and particularly flavanols and flavonols, are potent in vitro …

Flavonoids are characterized as the low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds
universally distributed in planta. They are a chemically varied group of secondary …

Flavonoids are small molecular secondary metabolites synthesized by plants with various
biological activities. Due to their physical and biochemical properties, they are capable of …

Flavonoids are a diverse group of secondary metabolites with a wide range of roles in
mechanisms relating to UV protection, insect attraction, pathogen defense, symbiosis …

Whether flavonoids play significant antioxidant roles in plants challenged by photooxidative
stress of different origin has been largely debated over the last few decades. A critical review …