Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research, Volume 7

RECENT ADVANCES IN POLYPHENOL RESEARCH
 
Plant polyphenols are secondary metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of natural products. They are essential plant components for adaptation to the environment and possess a large and diverse range of biological functions that provide many benefits to both plants and humans. Polyphenols, from their structurally simplest forms to their oligo/polymeric versions (i.e. tannin and lignin), are phytoestrogens, plant pigments, antioxidants, and structural components of the plant cell wall. The interaction between tannins and proteins is involved in plant defense against predation, cause astringency in foods and beverages, and affect the nutritional and health properties of human and animal food plants.
 
This seventh volume of the highly regarded Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research series is edited by Jess Dreher Reed, Victor Armando Pereira de Freitas, and Stéphane Quideau, and brings together chapters written by some of the leading experts working in the polyphenol sciences today. Topics covered include:
* Chemistry and physicochemistry
* Biosynthesis, genetics and metabolic engineering
* Roles in plants and ecosystems
* Food, nutrition and health
* Applied polyphenols
 
Distilling the most recent and illuminating data available, this new volume is an invaluable resource for chemists, biochemists, plant scientists, pharmacognosists and pharmacologists, biologists, ecologists, food scientists and nutritionists.

List of contents

Contributors
 
Preface
 
1 Achieving Complexity at the Bottom Through the Flavylium Cation-Based Multistate. A Comprehensive Kinetic and Thermodynamic Study
Johan Mendoza and Fernando Pina
 
1.1 Introduction
 
1.2 Flavylium cation as a metamorphosis generator
 
1.3 Extending the multistate of anthocyanins and related compounds to the basic region
 
1.4 The kinetic processes
 
1.5 Conclusions and perspectives
 
2 Proanthocyanidin Oligomers with Doubly-Linked (A-Type) Interflavan Connectivity: Structure and Synthesis
Ken Ohmori and Keisuke Suzuki
 
2.1 Introduction
 
2.2 Structure
 
2.3 Synthetic studies
 
2.4 Conclusion
 
3 Answering the Call of the Wild: Polyphenols in Traditional Therapeutic Practice
Mary Ann Lila and Kriya Dunlap
 
3.1 Introduction
 
3.2 The wildcrafting tradition
 
3.3 How wildcrafted edible plants differ from agricultural commodities
 
3.4 Animal mimickry/Zoopharmacognosy
 
3.5 Probing the mechanisms behind polyphenol-rich traditional medicines bioactivity
 
3.6 Commercialization prospects for wildcrafted polyphenol-rich plants
 
3.7 Acknowledgements
 
4 Causes and Consequences of Condensed Tannin Variation in Populus: A Molecules to Ecosystems Perspective
Kennedy F. Rubert-Nason and Richard L. Lindroth
 
4.1 Introduction
 
4.2 Condensed tannin biosynthesis
 
4.3 Allocational tradeoffs influence CT production
 
4.4 Causes of quantitative and qualitative variation in Populus CTs
 
4.5 Roles of CT variation in Populus-environment interactions
 
4.6 Importance of CTs in Populus-dominated ecosystems of the Anthropocene
 
4.7 Conclusions and challenges
 
5 Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) of Proanthocyanidins to Determine Authenticity of Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements
Daniel Esquivel-Alvarado, Jess D. Reed, and Christian G. Krueger
 
5.1 Introduction
 
5.2 Introduction to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)
 
5.3 Mass spectrometry of proanthocyanidins
 
5.4 Deconvolution of isotope patterns of A- to B-type interflavan bonds in proanthocyanidins
 
5.5 Multivariate analysis of MALDI-TOF MS spectra data
 
5.6 Conclusion
 
6 Challenges in Analyzing Bioactive Proanthocyanidins
Wayne E. Zeller and Irene Mueller-Harvey
 
6.1 Introduction
 
6.2 Structural diversity of proanthocyanidins
 
6.3 Noted challenges in proanthocyanidin analysis
 
6.4 Fate of proanthocyanidins in digestive tract and during plant fermentation
 
6.5 Definition and possible origins of non-extractable proanthocyanidins (NEPAs)
 
6.6 Universal problems of proanthocyanidin analysis
 
6.7 Proanthocyanidin characterization by depolymerization
 
6.8 Mass spectrometry
 
6.9 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
 
6.10 Colorimetry
 
6.11 Infra-red spectroscopy
 
6.12 Conclusions
 
7 Lignin Monomers Derived from the Flavonoid and Hydroxystilbene Biosynthetic Pathways
José C. del Río, Jorge Rencoret, Ana Gutiérrez, Wu Lan, Hoon Kim and John Ralph
 
7.1 Lignin monomers derived from the monolignol biosynthetic pathway
 
7.2 Flavonoid and hydroxystilbene biosynthetic pathways
 
7.3 Radical coupling of flavonoids and hydroxystilbenes with monolignols - flavonolignans and stilbenolignans
 
7.4 Lignin monomers derived from the flavonoid and hydroxystilbene biosynthetic pathways
 
7.5 Conclusions and future prospects
 
7.6 Ac

About the author

About the Editors
Jess Dreher Reed is Professor of Animal Nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with over 30 years of postgraduate experience in research on the effects of dietary phytochemicals on the nutrition and health of animals and humans. His research includes development of phytochemical methods for characterization of tannin structure and their interactions with proteins and polysaccharides, and mechanistic studies on the effects of tannins in cell culture and animal models of disease.
Victor Armando Pereira de Freitas, current President of the Groupe Polyphénols (since 2016), is Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal. His research on polyphenols include: structural characterization, chemical transformations in plants and foods during harvest and storage, influence on the sensory properties of foods (color, astringency and bitterness), and other biological properties.
Stéphane Quideau, former President of the Groupe Polyphénols (2008-2012), is Full Professor of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, France, and Senior Member of the "Institut Universitaire de France". His laboratory is involved in research on plant polyphenol chemistry and chemical biology, with particular interests in ellagitannin chemical reactivity and synthesis, and in polyphenol-protein interactions.

Product details

• Authors: S Quideau
• Assisted by: Victor de Freitas (Editor), Stéphane Quideau (Editor), Jess Reed (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2021
• EAN: 9781119545927
• ISBN: 978-1-119-54592-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Botanik, Biochemie, Life Sciences, Biowissenschaften, biochemistry, Functional Food, Polyphenole, Plant Biochemistry, Food Science & Technology, Lebensmittelforschung u. -technologie, Functional Food, Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals, Botanik / Biochemie