Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 22-29.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2017-0546

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Research Progress on Phenolic Compounds of Plant Secondary Metabolites

HUA Xiao-yu1, TAO Shuang1, SUN Sheng-nan2, GUO Na3, YAN Xiu-feng1, LIN Ji-xiang1   

  1. 1. Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center,Northeast Forestry University,Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration,Ministry of Education,Harbin 150040;
    2. Colleges of Animal Science and Technology,Yangzhou University,Yangzhou 225009;
    3. Department of Food and Environmental Engineering,East University of Heilongjiang,Harbin 150066
  • Received:2017-07-01 Online:2017-12-25 Published:2017-12-21

Abstract: With the rapid development of biological theories and technologies in recent years,plant secondary metabolites are growingly concerned. Among them,the phenolic compounds are the most widely distributed and have critical physiological functions. They not only have natural antioxidant activity,but also contain a variety of medicinal values,and play an important regulating role in plant development and signal transduction under stress conditions,thus have become a hot spot of research. Based on this,we summarized the classification,synthesis pathways,physiological functions and medicinal values of the phenolic compounds from domestic and foreign researches,and put forward the future research direction and the problems that should be paid attentions to,aimed at providing some references for the in-depth study of secondary metabolites,especially phenolic compounds.

Key words: phenolic compounds, synthetic pathway, physiological function, medicinal value