Medicinal Plants and Industrial Crops: Phytochemistry and Metabolic Diseases
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 34537
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Interests: plant inventory; evaluation of growth environments and cultivation hotspots for useful plants using GIS/remote sensing; plant biotechnology; traditional medicine
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2. Department of Administration, Reva University, Bangalore 560064, Karnataka, India
Interests: medicinal plants; metabolic diseases; nanoparticle research; medicinal chemistry; biotechnology; food security
Interests: biologically active compounds; virus; plant products
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Interests: genetic diversity; medicinal and fruit plants; genomics and transcriptomics; plant biotechnology
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2. BVRIT HYDERABAD College of Engineering for Women, Bachupally, Nizampet Rd., Hyderabad 500090, India
3. Global Center for Natural Resources Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan
Interests: remote sensing; GIS; satellite/UAV image analysis; IoTs; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of medicinal plants and functional foods has increased to boost the immune system of the human body. Medicinal plants play a vital role in the development of therapeutics for various types of diseases, including metabolic, transmissible, and non-transmissible diseases. Medicinal plants from various regions of the world contain different types of secondary metabolites, which exhibit the ability to directly and indirectly contribute to human wellness. The identification, diversity, conservation, and cultivation of these rare plant resources is useful to protect human life from various harms. In this view, this Special Issue aims to highlight all aspects related to medicinal plants, and the cultivation and processing of medicinal plants for herbal drugs. We invite articles related to studies on the identification and cultivation of various medicinal plants, extraction techniques of metabolites, and qualitative and quantitative techniques to determine their composition and pharmacological profile.
Prof. Dr. Takashi Watanabe
Prof. Dr. Visweswara Rao Pasupuleti
Prof. Dr. Mikako Fujita
Dr. Yukio Nagano
Dr. Raju Aedla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecological biochemistry
- plant chemistry
- molecular biology and genetics
- structure and bioactivities of phytochemicals
- molecular genetics and genomics
- protein biochemistry and proteomics
- metabolism and metabolomics
- chemistry and bioactive products
- medicinal plants for high biomass yield and phytochemical content
- medicinal plants and diseases
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