TY - CHAP AU - Bourlaye Fofana AU - Kaushik Ghose AU - Bob Chapman AU - Kevin Sanderson ED - Marianna Kulka Y1 - 2013-06-19 PY - 2013 T1 - Genetic, Agronomy, and Metabolomics of Prince Edwards Island Wild Rose Collection and Promise for Cultivar Development N2 - The medicinal use of plants, animals and microorganisms has been a part of human evolution and likely began before recorded history. Is it possible that this knowledge can be used to create powerful new drugs and solve some of the human health problems facing us today? This book is a collection of an expert team of agronomists, chemists, biologists and policy makers who discuss some of the processes involved in developing a naturally-sourced bioactive compound into a drug therapy. These experts define a natural compound and elucidate the processes required to find, extract and define a naturally-derived bioactive molecule. Finally, they describe the necessity for understanding the fundamental mechanisms of disease before applying bioactive molecules in bioassay-guided drug discovery platforms. BT - Using Old Solutions to New Problems SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/54688 DO - 10.5772/54688 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -