Recent Research on Medicinal Plants

Dear Colleagues,

For thousands of years, medicinal plants have been used to benefit human health. Currently, they are used as herbal medicines, dietary supplements or tonics, with their application and demand increasing worldwide. However, continued scientific investigation is required to further enhance our understanding of medicinal plants, particularly with regard to their production and efficacy. To date, a large number of phytochemicals have been identified in medicinal plants. These have a wide range of biological activities, including antibacterial, antivirus, and anticancer effects, as well as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects. Naturally occurring compounds can exert complicated bioactivities and their efficacy can be difficult to ascertain. Therefore, comprehensive studies on the biosynthesis of phytochemicals and on their biological functions are needed.

This Special Issue aims to publish recent innovative studies on medicinal plants, ranging in scope from bioinformatics, biotechnology, multi-omics, pharmacology, plant biology, systems pharmacology, chromatography techniques and plant secondary metabolites. Also welcome are studies on anti-inflammation, anti-oxidative stress, treatments for cancer and for neurological, liver and cardiovascular diseases, and applications in nanomedicine, nanotechnology and drug delivery systems.

Prof. Dr. Jen-Tsung Chen

Guest Editor

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online editorial system at https://imr.propub.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to start your submission. Manuscripts can be submitted now or up until the deadline. All papers will go through peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the journal (as soon as accepted) and meanwhile listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, reviews as well as short communications are preferred. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office to announce on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 500 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.