Ethnomedical questionnaires were distributed in Chicago, Costa Rica, and Colombia to identify the most common over-the-counter (OTC) plant or plant-based products advocated for treating oral pain, ulcerative conditions, and cancer within these locations. Over 100 plants or plant-based herbal preparations and commercial products, purchased from local botanical markets and pharmacies, were advoca...

Citation Leonard, Effendi et al. " Opportunities in metabolic engineering to facilitate scalable alkaloid production. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Abstract 1 2 Numerous drugs and drug precursors in the current pharmacopoeia 3 originate from plant sources. The limited yield of bioactive compounds in 4 plant...

Fertility is possibly the most important capability contained within living cells or species. Therefore, finding the most efficacious way to enhance or promote fertility is the main goal of all living things. To best manage nature's strong predisposition for fertility, plant-based traditional medicines for birth control have long been incorporated into medical practices throughout the world, in...

2 Introduction How can the productivity of a plant with a high level of automation be increased even further? Surveys have indicated that plant operators in all sectors consider increased availability and shorter downtimes to be the most effective lever toward increasing productivity. Investigations have shown that downtimes are frequently the result of insufficient maintenance – despite the fa...

Dental biomaterials and natural products represent two of the main growing research fields, revealing plant-derived compounds may play a role not only as nutraceuticals in affecting oral health, but also in improving physico-chemical properties of biomaterials used in dentistry. Therefore, our aim was to collect all available data concerning the utilization of plant polysaccharides, proteins an...

At present the pharmaceutical academia and industries are focusing on the use of natural materials and resources for development of pharmaceutical product. Due to advances in drug delivery technology, currently, excipients are included in novel dosage forms to fulfill specific functions. Various natural polymers are widely being studied as a potential carrier material for site specific drug del...

Marigold botanically identifies as Tagetes (Compositae) genus is an ethnobotanically known drug, used from ancient times in the Indian system of Medicine for the treatment of rheumatism, cold, bronchitis, eye diseases, ulcers etc. Tagetes species, commonly known as marigold, are grown as ornamental plants and thrive in varied agro-climates. The genus has been recognized as a potential source of...

Basic Substances are a newly effective category of Plant Protection Product under EC Regulation No 1107/2009. The first approved application of Equisetum arvense L. opened Part C of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, which lists the basic substance approved. Although E. arvense was described as a fungicide extract, subsequent applications like chitosan were related to non-biocide molecul...