Research Progress and Application Prospect of Medicinal Plants—Volume II
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 3539
Special Issue Editors
Interests: QSAR; medicinal chemistry; natural products; cheminformatic
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: molecular modeling; cheminformatic; natural products
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: cheminformatics; medicinal chemistry; antiviral research; computational toxicology; natural products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues，
Natural organisms, especially plants, provide innumerable molecules, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenes, secondary metabolites, with the potential to treat several diseases owing to their beneficial effects on human health, such as their antiviral, antiallergic, antiplatelet, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, antioxidant and antiparasitic activities. The history of oriental and occidental civilizations is very rich in examples of the utilization of natural products in medicine and health care. The complexity, chemical diversity and biological properties of natural products have always fascinated people, and in the last 200 years, this has led to the discovery of important novel drugs. The utilization of natural products has been the subject of increasing interest in phytochemistry, biochemistry and other fields of research at the chemistry–biology–ecosystem interface. Many studies report different approaches to employing these compounds in drug discovery, comprising synthesis, semi-synthesis, the search for novel targets, and the evaluation of biological activities, and/or theoretical approaches, such as structure-based approaches, SAR, QSAR, docking and cheminformatics methods.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present an overview of recent research utilizing medicinal plants for the treatment or cure of diseases.
Dr. Marcus Tullius Scotti
Prof. Dr. Luciana Scotti
Dr. Eugene Muratov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- diseases
- drugs
- natural products
- pharmacological activity
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