Specialized Phenolic compounds in seeds: structures, functions, and regulations

•There is a large diversity of seed specialized metabolites (SSM).•SSM and especially phenolics protect seeds and impact human nutrition and health.•Seed phenolics provide useful models for studying specialized metabolisms.•Seed flavonoid pathways are subjected to fine-tuned regulations of gene expression.•Multiomic data integration will allow characterizing new metabolic pathways.