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plant-bioactives

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Plant bioactives are naturally occurring chemical compounds produced by plants—such as polyphenols, alkaloids, terpenoids, and flavonoids—that have biological activity in living organisms. Understanding these compounds is central to plant science because they play key roles in plant defense, stress responses, and ecological interactions, while also driving research into how plants synthesize and regulate these molecules at the biochemical and genetic level.