Marine ecosystems are unique and rich reservoirs of biodiversity with high potential toward improving the quality human life. The extreme physical–chemical conditions oceans have favored marine organisms to produce a great variety new molecules as mechanism ensure their survival, such compounds possess biopharmaceutical interest. In particular, microbiota represent promising inexhaustible sourc...

Mangrove plants are popularized for their edible and vital source of food. Mangroves in Pulau Sembilan, Langkat, North Sumatra, Indonesia were supported by the high plant diversity. These major tree species provided mangrove fruits annually assist finding a new variety functional food materials. Bioprospecting was denoted exploration bioresources material to useful derived products. The present...

     This manuscript is a review of a number of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology texts and papers in order to arrive at current understanding and scope of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. It includes either a brief definition of both fields and presenting some examples on them. Also it has a glimpse on the geographical coverage of research works throughout the world, important issue of prope...

BACKGROUND Hitherto, the main goal of metaproteomic analyses has been to characterize the functional role of particular microorganisms in the microbial ecology of various microbial communities. Recently, it has been suggested that metaproteomics could be used for bioprospecting microbial communities to query for the most active enzymes to improve the selection process of industrially relevant e...

Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thomson is a climbing deciduous shrub. It is found throughout tropical part of India also found in China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Srilanka. Plant refers wide range of soil, acid to alkaline and it needs moderate moisture level. In Ayurveda, basically it is used for its general adaptogenic, rejuvenating and immunomodulatory activity. Besides of these prope...

The microbiome can be defined as the community of microorganisms that live in a particular environment. Metagenomics is the practice of sequencing DNA from the genomes of all organisms present in a particular sample, and has become a common method for the study of microbiome population structure and function. Increasingly, researchers are finding novel genes encoded within metagenomes, many of ...