As per WHO reports, about three-quarters (65-80%) of the world's population seek plants or
plant-derived natural products for various diseases. The slow discovery of new synthetic …

Isoquinoline alkaloids are a kind of small molecular compounds with isoquinoline structure
which widely exist in natural plants. A large number of studies have confirmed that these …

Plants hold great promise as a source of novel antimicrobial agents due to a wide variety of
chemically and structurally diverse secondary metabolites generally grouped into …

Plants are important source of potentially useful structures for the development of new
chemotherapeutic agents. In an approach toward the development of eco-friendly antifungal …

Plants produce a broad variety of natural products. The data bank NAPRALERT listed about
88,000 natural products in 1988, of which about 16,000 were alkaloids. These so-called …

The isoquinoline alkaloids, protopine and allocryptopine are components of numerous
phytopreparations. The wide spectrum of biological activities reported for these alkaloids …

Infectious diseases, instigated by pathogenic microorganisms are the cause of numerous
health problems in developing countries. Infectious diseases got a place in the list of top ten …

The enormous chemical diversity in the plant kingdom and the biochemical metabolic
pathways yet to be discovered remain a challenging area of scientific research. They are a …

Plants represent an inexhaustible source of novel molecules for recent drug discovery
studies. Plant extracts and their active constituents have long been used in traditional …

In this review, we discuss novel natural products discovered within the last decade that are
reported to have antifungal activity against pathogenic species. Nearly a hundred natural …