Okinawan Subtropical Plants as a Promising Resource for Novel Chemical Treasury

Katsuyoshi Matsunami, Hideaki Otsuka
2018 Chemical and pharmaceutical bulletin  
The Okinawa Islands are a crescent-shaped archipelago and their natural forests hold a huge variety of unique subtropical plants with relatively high endemism. We have performed phytochemical study on Okinawan subtropical plants for many years. In this review, we describe our recent research progress on the isolation of new compounds and their various bioactivities.
doi:10.1248/cpb.c17-00831 pmid:29710048 fatcat:xmax6vjhivcrzff5iypn2dvd4q