Bioprospecting of New Natural Organic Compounds and Their Bioactivity Spectrum

Dear Colleagues,

Natural products have played a significant role in human health and wellbeing for centuries. There remains a vast unexplored biodiversity with many new and significant discoveries being made each year. The bioprospecting of new natural organic compounds has led to the identification of useful biochemicals that are used as medicines and foods, and in veterinary medicine, agriculture, cosmetics and environment.
This Special Issue will consider research and review articles that present new natural compounds from a diverse range of biological sources including plants, bacteria, fungi and animals. Works should give the structures of the new compounds, and could include their synthesis if relevant as well as their in vitro and in vivo biological activities.

Dr. Moses K. Langat
Dr. Sianne L. Schwikkard
Dr. Derese Solomon
Guest Editors

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