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Scientific aspects of traditional usage of bioresources.

Thebtaranonth Y.

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. scytr@mucc.mahidol.ac.th

Research on natural products provides not only knowledge and understanding of living organisms but chemical entities obtained from bioresources can also be used as structural models for further development in the various fields, notably in the agricultural and pharmaceutical sciences. Selected examples on the scientific aspects of traditional usage of bioresources are described.