“…They play an important role in protection of plants from microbial and insect attack. Many studies reported that flavonoids exhibit various effects as antioxidant (Siahpoosh et al, 2016;Balci & Özdemir, 2016), anti-cancer (Androutsopoulos et al, 2010;Ma et al, 2015), anti-allergic (Park et al, 2006), anti-thrombotic and vasodilatory (Rahimi et al, 2010), anticholinesterase (Ertas et al, 2016) actions. Finally, because of their UV-absorbing properties, flavonoids protect plants from the UV radiation of the sun and scavenge UV-generated reactive oxygen species (Shirley, 1996).…”