Natural Products Research in Australia and New Zealand

Dear Colleagues,

Australia and New Zealand are ideal locations for research into natural products of both terrestrial and marine origin. Due to their geographic isolation, both have unique flora and fauna and a very high degree of endemism in that biota. For example, 92% of Australia’s and 80% of New Zealand’s vascular plants are endemic. Both countries have extensive coastlines, a wide variety of marine habitats and very large exclusive economic zones and endemism in the oceans of the region is also at a high level.

Not surprisingly therefore, natural products research of all kinds is very active in this area. For example, Marinlit, a database of the marine natural products literature contains 155 records for studies pertaining to organisms collected from New Zealand waters and 713 records for organisms from Australian waters between the years 1970 and 2015. Natural product research in the region is diverse, encompassing fields, such as biodiscovery, chemical ecology, synthesis, environmental impact studies and many others.

As Guest Editor, I invite researchers to submit their work relevant to these topics and to any others encompassing natural products research in the region to this Special Issue of Molecules. The aim of this issue is to showcase the breadth and quality of natural products research in this part of the globe.

Assoc. Prof. Michele R. Prinsep
Guest Editor

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