In the international scientific journal Plants (IF 4.5) dedicated to plant research, our scientists published a paper entitled “Invasive Alien Species as a Potential Source of Phytopharmaceuticals: Phenolic Composition and Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activity of Robinia pseudoacacia L. Leaf and Flower Extracts”. The paper is a part of the NATURALLY project (HRZZ-IP-2020-02-6899), which studies the phytopharmaceutical potential of extracts of four foreign invasive plant species.
In this paper, an international team of researchers present for the first time the profile of phenolic compounds of Black locust populations, an invasive species from the area of the Istrian peninsula. The paper also presents the first data on the antimicrobial and cytotoxic activity of black locust leaf and flower extracts from this area tested on in vitro cell cultures. This is one of the first steps towards the final goal – the proposal of a model for exploiting invasive species for beneficial purposes, and thus contributing to the sustainable management of invasive species, which is one of the global priorities caused by climate change.
Uzelac, M., Sladonja, B., Šola, I., Dudaš, S., Bilić, J., Famuyide, I.M., McGaw, L.J., Eloff, J.N., Mikulic-Petkovsek, M., Poljuha, D. Invasive Alien Species as a Potential Source of Phytopharmaceuticals: Phenolic Composition and Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activity of Robinia pseudoacacia L. Leaf and Flower Extracts. Plants 2023, 12, 2715.
The paper is available at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/14/2715.
