Plant Science’s Contribution to fighting viral pandemics: COVID-19 as a case study

The contributions of researchers from different fields of expertise to the Research Topic about the use of plants in the fight against pandemics, including COVID-19, published by FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE and co-edited by CBGP researcher Fernando Ponz, together with other scientist from Barcelona (Spain) and Verona (Italy), have been reviewed and recently published. A number of different articles in the Research Topic have explored the very different opportunities that plants provide in this fight. They have been put together and analyzed in a Research Topic Editorial.