The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens raises an urgent need to identify and
isolate new bioactive compounds from medicinal plants using standardized modern …

Medicinal plants have historically proven their value as a source of molecules with
therapeutic potential, and nowadays still represent an important pool for the identification of …

Ethnopharmacology can be basically defined as “the interdisciplinary scientific exploration
of the biologically active agents that are traditionally employed”. Therefore, the …

Phytochemicals of medicinal plants encompass a diverse chemical space for drug
discovery. India is rich with a flora of indigenous medicinal plants that have been used for …

Secondary metabolites, also known as phytochemicals, natural products or plant
constituents are responsible for medicinal properties of plants to which they belong. The role …

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity-what it is, how it
arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to …

Natural products are the most consistently successful source of drug leads. Despite this,
their use in drug discovery has fallen out of favour. Natural products continue to provide …

In recent years, bioactive compounds are in high demand in the pharmaceuticals and
naturopathy, due to their health benefits to human and plants. Microorganisms synthesize …

Plants synthesize an extensive array of secondary metabolites, often with highly complex
structures. Currently, most pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites are isolated …

Plant cell culture systems represent a potential renewable source of valuable medicinal
compounds, flavors, fragrances, and colorants, which cannot be produced by microbial cells …