Sprouts and microgreens have attracted tremendous interest across multiple disciplines in recent years. Here, we critically review the most recent advances to underscore research prospects and niches, and related challenges, not yet addressed or fully pursued. In particular, we report a number of themes that merit special attention as a result of their relevance to plant science, nutrition, health, and zootechnics: (1) species not yet or inadequately investigated, such as wild plants, and fruit tree strains; (2) abiotic and biotic factors, and biostimulants, for elicitation strategies and metabolic engineering; (3) sanitization and processing technologies to obtain high-quality products; (4) digestive fate and impact of bioactive elements, antinutrients, and allergens on human nutrition; (5) experimental challenges to researching health benefits; (6) the opportunity to generate natural product libraries for drug discovery; and (7) sprouts in animal feeding to improve both animal health and the nutritional value of animal products for the human diet. The convergence of different themes involving interdisciplinary competencies advocate fascinating research pursuits, for example, the elicitation of metabolic variants to generate natural product collections for identification and selection of bioactive chemicals with a role as nutraceuticals, key constituents of functional foods, or interactive partners of specific drugs.

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新芽和微型蔬菜：新颖研究的趋势，机遇和前景

近年来，新芽和微果树在多个学科中引起了极大的兴趣。在这里，我们批判性地回顾了最新的进展，以强调尚未解决或未完全解决的研究前景和优势以及相关挑战。特别是，我们报告了许多主题，因为它们与植物科学，营养，健康和动物技术有关，因此值得特别关注：（1）尚未或未进行充分调查的物种，例如野生植物和果树品系；（2）非生物和生物因子以及生物刺激剂，用于诱导策略和代谢工程；（三）消毒处理技术，以获得优质产品；（4）消化命运以及生物活性元素，抗营养剂和过敏原对人体营养的影响；（5）研究健康益处的实验挑战；（6）有机会产生用于药物发现的天然产物库；（7）在动物饲料中发芽，以改善动物健康和动物产品对人类饮食的营养价值。涉及跨学科能力的不同主题的融合倡导了令人着迷的研究追求，例如，激发代谢变体以生成天然产物集合，以鉴定和选择具有营养保健品，功能性食品的关键成分或特定物质的互动伙伴作用的生物活性化学品。毒品。