Analysis of Bioactive Compounds from Medicinal Plants and Promising Applications
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 16360
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Interests: ethnomedicine; phytochemistry; natural products; bioactive compounds; plant-based health solutions
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Dear Colleagues,
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 65%–80% of the population from developing countries use medicinal plants (MP) as remedies, which makes ethnomedicinal studies of significant value in terms of discovering contemporary drugs. Presently, 25% of herbal drugs in the modern pharmacopeia are plant based and several synthetic drugs are made using chemical substances isolated from plants. Nowadays, the role of medicinal plant species in traditional health practices has diverted the attention of researchers towards ethnomedicines. The development of standardized herbal medicines with proven efficacy and safety is an important approach to increase people’s access to medicines and offer new therapeutic options. Following EU guidelines for the approval of herbal traditional medicines, it is fundamental to have pharmacological effects and/or proven efficacy, considering the usage and long-established experience. Furthermore, bibliographic data or expert opinions that prove that the drug has been used therapeutically in the previous 30 years are mandatory, with this being at least 15 years of use for EU member states.
Frequently, medicinal plants face severe environmental stresses (such as, altitude, salinity, drought, nutrient limitation, substrate instability, sand burial, wind abrasion, erosion of the coastline, storms, fire), which lead to the development of adaptations, including the production of secondary metabolites with a wide range of interesting bioactivities and a huge range of potential applications.
Prof. Dr. Célia Cabral
Dr. Elisa Julião Campos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant adaptations
- natural products
- secondary metabolites
- analytical techniques
- biological activities
- plant-based health solutions
- new drugs
- nutraceuticals
- cosmetics
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