Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics reviews the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plant tribes and genera, and their relevance to drug efficacy. Medicinal plants provide a myriad of pharmaceutically active components, which have been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and worldwide for thousands of years. Increasing interest in plant-based medicinal resources has led to additional discoveries of many novel compounds, in various angiosperm and gymnosperm species, and investigations on their chemotaxonomy, molecular phylogeny and pharmacology. Chapters in this book explore the interrelationship within traditional Chinese medicinal plant groups and between Chinese species and species outside of China. Chapters also discuss the incongruence between chemotaxonomy and molecular phylogeny, concluding with chapters on systems biology and "-omics technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics), and how they will play an increasingly important role in future pharmaceutical research. - Reviews best practice and essential developments in medicinal plant chemistry and biology - Discusses the principles and applications of various techniques used to discover medicinal compounds - Explores the analysis and classification of novel plant-based medicinal compounds - Includes case studies on pharmaphylogeny - Compares and integrates traditional knowledge and current perception of worldwide medicinal plants

Da-Cheng Hao is Professor and Primary Investigator at the School of Environment and Chemical Engineering and the Biotechnology Institute, at Dalian Jiaotong University, in Dalian, China. He has published widely in the fields of medicinal plant and phytomedicine, and is the author of Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics and Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Chemodiversity and Pharmacotherapy (Academic Press, 2018).

Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics reviews the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plant tribes and genera, and their relevance to drug efficacy.

Medicinal plants provide a myriad of pharmaceutically active components, which have been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and worldwide for thousands of years. Increasing interest in plant-based medicinal resources has led to additional discoveries of many novel compounds, in various angiosperm and gymnosperm species, and investigations on their chemotaxonomy, molecular phylogeny and pharmacology.

Chapters in this book explore the interrelationship within traditional Chinese medicinal plant groups and between Chinese species and species outside of China. Chapters also discuss the incongruence between chemotaxonomy and molecular phylogeny, concluding with chapters on systems biology and "-omics technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics), and how they will play an increasingly important role in future pharmaceutical research.

• Reviews best practice and essential developments in medicinal plant chemistry and biology
• Discusses the principles and applications of various techniques used to discover medicinal compounds
• Explores the analysis and classification of novel plant-based medicinal compounds
• Includes case studies on pharmaphylogeny
• Compares and integrates traditional knowledge and current perception of worldwide medicinal plants

• Preface
• Chapter 1 Chemotaxonomy: a phylogeny-based approach
• Chapter 2 High-throughput sequencing in medicinal plant transcriptome studies
• Chapter 3 Taxus medicinal resources: a comprehensive study
• Chapter 4 Phytochemical and biological research of Chelidonieae pharmaceutical resources
• Chapter 5 Chemical and biological studies of Aconitum pharmaceutical resources
• Chapter 6 Chemical and biological studies of Cimicifugeae pharmaceutical resources
• Chapter 7 Chemical and biological research of Clematis medicinal resources
• Chapter 8 Potentilla and Rubus medicinal plants: potential non-Camellia tea resources
• Chapter 9 Phytochemistry and biology of Ilex pharmaceutical resources
• Chapter 10 Phytochemical and biological research of Fritillaria medicinal resources
• References
• Keyword index