Selection of Medicinal Plants - Evolutionary Considerations for Ethnopharmacology and Drug Discovery
Publication Year: 2015
Author(s): Leonti M
Abstract:
Biological diversity is evidence for chemical diversity. Secondary metabolites are adaptive traits, similar within members of a taxon and occasionally also between taxa exposed to similar ecological selection pressures. Plant taxa used in traditional and local medicines belong to an over-proportional extent to the same 62 families
Source of Publication: Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
Vol/Issue: 14(4),605-608pp
Country: Italy
Publisher/Organisation: NISCAIR-CSIR
URL:
https://nopr.niscpr.res.in/bitstream/123456789/33025/1/IJTK%2014%284%29%20605-608.pdf
Theme: Traditional/ Indigenous Knowledge | Subtheme: