Medicinal Herbs: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 3237
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Interests: pharmacognosy; medicinal plants; herbal medicines; ethnobotany; ethnopharmacology; ethnopharmacy; rational phytotherapy; natural products
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Interests: botany; floras; alien species invasions; biodeterioration of historical and archaeological buildings; ethnobotany; iconographic analysis of artistic representations of natural elements in archaeological remains and artifacts of the Mediterranean region
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Interests: tea plant
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants and their preparation continue to play an important role in the health of the world population. In addition, they are recognized for its undeniable value as a source of new medicines or as a means of synthesizing them. As technological advances including artificial intelligence are tackled, new tools and challenges are being defined to be employed in the exploitation of these increasingly scarce natural resources.
In this Special Issue, original research papers, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions, reviews, modeling approaches, and methodologies related to recent advances and prospects of advancing knowledge of the production, quality, safety, and efficacy of medicinal plants and their respective preparations are welcome, with particular emphasis on the application of methods that facilitate and accelerate the obtention and certification of these natural resources in a more sustainable way.
Dr. Olga Silva
Dr. Riccardo Motti
Prof. Dr. Xinchao Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plant production
- medicinal plant processing
- medicinal plant preservation
- medicinal plant quality control
- herbal product processing
- medicinal plant toxicity
- medicinal plant biological activity
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