Abstract
Humans have been using plants as a natural factory of pharmaceutical molecules for many centuries. Many secondary metabolites of plants exhibit a diversity of therapeutic effects including anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, and antimicrobial properties. These natural plant medicines were widely used around the world by early civilizations to protect and maintain human and animal health. Even today, with our highly sophisticated pharmaceutical technologies, more than one-quarter of prescription pharmaceutics are still derived from plants.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Transgenic Horticultural Crops |
| Subtitle of host publication | Challenges and Opportunities |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Pages | 83-124 |
| Number of pages | 42 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781420093797 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781420093780 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology