PERSPECTIVES ON INNOVATION FROM THE BRAZILIAN BIODIVERSITY
JOÃO LUIS CALLEGARI LOPES
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS FARMACÊUTICAS DE RIBEIRÃO PRETO - USP
The high potential of the Brazilian biodiversity is well known and subject
of discussion in scientific events in the last years. The perspectives of plants
and chemical compounds from species of the tribe Vernonieae ( Asteraceae),
specially Eremanthus and Lychnophora , the two most numerous genera of the
tribe, subject of a chemical constituents and biological activities review recently
published in Química Nova, will be discussed. Some terpenoids and flavonoids,
whose occurrence is widespread in the family, could be examples of the
innovation potential of the family.