Herbal medicinal products - Plant breeding and good agricultural practice (GAP) for medicinal and aromatic herbs

One of the major goals of Botanical Operations is to use biotechnological tools to develop improved clonal lines of dietary herbs and improved fermentation processes for dietary legumes to generate consistent, nontoxic and clinically relevant levels of phenolic metabolites for use as nutraceuticals. Use of diverse antimicrobial-type plant phenolics is expected to lead to a reduced use of antibiotics and thus reduce the increase in antibiotic-resistant, disease-causing bacteria.