**8. Concluding remarks**

Naturally occurring flavonoids are of much interest to the scientific community at a large due to their multidirectional therapeutic applications. Besides, knowledge about natural distribution of flavonoids of varying structural skeletons is also very much essential to the taxonomists for classifying plants in the light of chemotaxonomy. Thus, flavonoids are of much interest to the workers of interdisciplinary fields.

The use of plant flavonoids could provide eco-friendly and sustainable approaches to improving food quality and crop yield as well as improving their adaptation to environmental stress. When applied in practice, flavonoids could be very effective in the field, as a result of their phytotoxic and pesticidal properties. Also natural


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