Biological Activities of Medicinal Plants and Their Potential Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant genetics; plant micropropagation
Interests: isolation, purification, and structure determination of natural products using chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques; study of biological activity of natural products; instrumental methods of plants and food analysis; development of methods for quality determination, adulteration, and authenticity (botanical and geographical origin) of food
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Dear Colleagues,
As is well established, the use of plants in medicine is as old as mankind, even if, at the beginning, their medical application was predicated more on empiricism. However, when data pertaining to causes of diseases and the type of plant used as a remedy started to accumulate, the use of medicinal plants was no longer based on an empirical framework but rather facts and explanations. Nowadays, the demand for new medicine to address medical challenges is extremely high, which is why research is being directed towards the compounds and active principles of plants, demonstrating that pharmacological screening is instrumental to the development of new agents. Therefore, the isolation and profiling of secondary metabolites from plants, either traditional medicinal plants or plants that have more recently emerged as having medicinal properties, may reveal interesting bioactivities and disclose sources of new drugs that can be used to treat many diseases.
The Special Issue on “Biological Activities of Medicinal Plants and Their Potential Applications” welcomes submissions of recent research on plants and their secondary and primary biological methabolites as important sources of compounds with therapeutic potential.
Dr. Georgiana Duta-Cornescu
Prof. Dr. Petros Tarantilis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- pharmacology
- primary metabolites
- secondary metabolites
- biological activities
- bioactive compounds
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