Natural Products Isolated from Endemic Tasmanian Vascular Plants

Bioactive natural products from Thai plants

The investigation of Thai medicinal plants for the potential therapeutic agents is surveyed with a particular emphasis on the search for antimalarial agents. The study on Diospyros mollis, Croton sublyratus, and Phyllanthus amarus is described. Thailand is uniquely located to represent the fauna and flora which characterizes the biogeographic province of Indo-Burma. A number of the eastern Hima...

Antimicrobial natural products from Plectranthus plants

P. Rijo*, C.Faustino and M. Fátima Simões iMed.UL Research Institute for Medicines and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal CBios Research Centre for Health Sciences & Technologies (Pharmacology and Therapeutics Lab), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal

Natural Products from Semi–Mangrove Plants in China

Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics-mainly between latitudes 25° N and 25° S [1]. Mangrove plants were comprised of true-mangrove plants and semi-mangrove plants. The true-mangrove plants were woody plants, which only grew in the intertidal zone and couldn’t survive in the land. Semi-mang...

Natural Products from Plants and Fungi as Fungicides

New natural products from medicinal plants of Pakistan

A number of new natural products have been isolated from medicinal plants of Pakistan. Some of them have exhibited antifungal activities. Structure of those compounds were determined with the help of spectroscopic studies. 1. ANTIFUNGAL STEROIDAL LACTONES FROM WZTHANIA C O A G W C E Withanolides (c28 steroidal lactones) have been isolated from many plants of the family Solanaceae such as Withan...