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There is a continuous search of new drugs and molecules for health care. Plants offer a huge variety of those bioactive molecules, some of which are still unknown. Popular medicine is the source of information for ethnobotanists and pharmacobotanists, which in general are the first link in the chain that leads to the taxonomical, chemical and pharmacological description of a species.
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Alvarez, M.A. (2014). Plants for Health: From Secondary Metabolites to Molecular Farming . In: Plant Biotechnology for Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05771-2_1
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