Department of Pharmaceutical Botany

Departments

Department of Pharmaceutical Botany

It is a science that investigates the diagnosis and treatment process of medical plants in taxonomic classification, examines information about medical plants and examines the anatomical, morphological characteristics, distributions, chemical contents, bioactivity of plants, toxic plants, pharmacological clinical properties of plants and drug plant interactions.

Identification of medicinal plants which are important in pharmacy and drug industry to obtain herbal drugs as well as toxic and hazardous plants.

Morphological and anatomical investigation on medicinal plants, excursion and herbarium studies, taxonomic and floristic studies.

Determination, scientific identification of herbal resources used in traditional medicine and documentation of ethnobotanical information.

Studies on biological activities of plant extracts, fractions and compounds

Conservation of rich flora of Turkey and cultivation and standardization of medicinal and aromatic plants, qualitative and quantitative analysis of plant extracts.

Isolation and structure elucidation of polyphenolic and terpenic compounds from natural sources