Department of Pharmaceutical Botany Research Areas
- 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.
- Phytotherapy, Homeopathy and Aromatherapy.
- Isolation and structure elucidation of polyphenolic and terpenic compounds from natural sources
- Plant cell and tissue culture, plant molecular biology, metagenomics.