Plants and fungi provide a vast range of natural products including pharmaceuticals with
diverse chemical structures and a broad array of biological activities. In the past few …

Covering: 1977–2005In the search for new drugs and natural remedies, medicinal plants or
herbs used in folk and traditional medicines are promising candidates. For the naturally rare …

Plants are capable of synthesizing an overwhelming variety of organic compounds, termed
“secondary metabolites”, usually with unique and complex structures. The evolving …

Medicinal plants are sources of important therapeutic aid for alleviating human ailments.
With increasing realization of the health hazards and toxicity associated with the …

There has been a renewed interest in the use of herbal medicines throughout the world due
to toxicities and health hazards associated with synthetic drugs and antibiotics. The World …

Plants have traditionally been known as the primary source for producing natural products
from various plant parts such as barks, stems, leaves, and roots, and therefore used as a …

The plant kingdom is considered the most important source of medicinal chemicals. In vitro
culture techniques are being considered a promising alternative to traditional agricultural …

There has been a renewed interest in the use of herbal medicines throughout the world due
to toxicities and health hazards associated with synthetic drugs and antibiotics. About 85 …

Medicinal plants are used for tissue culture for producing active compounds efficaciously for
pharmaceutical industries. Several studies were carried out on medicinal plants for their …

Medicinal plants have been used by mankind since ancient times, and many bioactive plant
secondary metabolites are applied nowadays both directly as drugs, and as raw materials …