Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicity of Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1090
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medicinal plants used in the management of a plethora of both human and animal diseases; both curable and incurable
2. Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Interests: phytochemistry: investigation of bioactive metabolites from traditional medicinal plants; fungal chemistry: investigation of secondary metabolites from endophytic fungi collected from special environments such as desert or grasslands; biosynthesis: investigation of biosynthetic pathways of fungal secondary metabolites with complex structures and important bioactivities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of medicinal plants in treating various devastating human and animal diseases is ancient. It is still important today due to many illnesses requiring sophisticated instruments, extraordinary antibiotics, and management to extend human life. Such diseases are further compounded by the many microbes that have developed resistance to the antibiotics commonly used in health facilities. Although some plants, along with their characterized bioactive compounds, exert important biological effects that include antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antiparasitic, antidiabetic, and various enzyme inhibition activities in vitro, both distinctive compounds and the mode of action of such plant-based resources remain unknown, if not unstudied. Some state-of-the-art instruments such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), liquid chromatography (LC-MS), gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, and high-pressure liquid chromatography are essential in mapping out the possible phytocompounds responsible for such pharmacological activities, either individually or in a synergistic manner. The toxicological aspects of such plant-based products, which may include cytotoxicity and heavy metal contaminations, are also of paramount importance to ascertain the safety profile that would be required to produce over-the-counter products. Additionally, the biosynthesis of most secondary metabolites from medicinal plants including biosynthetic pathways, key enzymic functions in the pathways, transcriptomic analysis and specific regulators and others are not investigated. This Special Issue calls for papers addressing the pharmacology of less studied and rare medicinal plants from around the world, the phytochemistry of their extracts and or fractions and the possibility of identifying isolated compounds, and the biosynthesis of bioactive constituents of medicinal plants.
Dr. Nkoana Mongalo
Prof. Dr. Gang Ding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemistry
- ethnomedicinal uses
- pharmacological activity
- GC-MS
- LC-MS
- NMR
- biosynthesis
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