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Marine Flora: Source of Drugs from the Deep-Sea Environment

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Marine Niche: Applications in Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Marine floras are highly diverse and productive. Few marine ecosystems are expected to show higher biological diversity than in tropical rain forests. They are chemically different from terrestrial flora and can withstand adverse marine conditions. The production of unique chemicals has diversified further due to the continuous evolution of marine flora with the change of environmental conditions since billions of years ago. They demonstrate a worthy resource for novel potent drugs that might prove to be economical, safer, and useful medicine for dreadful human diseases. They are rich sources of bioactive compounds such as polyphenols and sulfated polysaccharides that have antimicrobial, antioxidant, antitumor, and disease-healing properties. Plant products are widely used since old times as natural medicines and after the exploration of marine floras discovery of marine medicines has also increased. Here, in this chapter, we present the latest developments on drugs originated from marine natural products and their usages.

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The authors acknowledge Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India for the financial support SB/FT/LS-188/2012 and ECR/2017/002478. AK is thankful to SERB, DST, New Delhi, India, for the junior research fellowship.

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  1. Department of Botany, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Archana Singh & Amit Kumar

  2. Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

    Archana Singh & Indrakant Kumar Singh

  3. Molecular Biology Research Lab, Department of Zoology, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Indrakant Kumar Singh

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  1. Department of Science & Technology, Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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  2. Department of Science & Technology, Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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  3. Department of Life Sciences, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

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Singh, A., Kumar, A., Singh, I.K. (2020). Marine Flora: Source of Drugs from the Deep-Sea Environment. In: Nathani, N.M., Mootapally, C., Gadhvi, I.R., Maitreya, B., Joshi, C.G. (eds) Marine Niche: Applications in Pharmaceutical Sciences . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5017-1_9

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