title: Decades of phytochemical research on African biodiversity.
abstract: This review provides a panoramic view of Prof. Kurt Hostettmann's contribution to the study of African medicinal plants as documented in over 85 publications with collaborators from about a dozen African countries. Many novel bioactive secondary metabolites were isolated, their structures elucidated by hyphenated HPLC techniques and their biological activity determined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Science and Technology, Omdurman, Sudan. khalidseek@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Sami A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Khalid
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000470:Alkaloids / Q000737:chemistry; D044822:Biodiversity; D016488:Medicine, African Traditional; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids