Enhancing the protection of valuable medicinal plants contributes to the development of medicine and agronomy. Lifeasible offers services to help customize the development of medicinal plant protection strategies.
Medicinal plants have a high application value. Many medicinal plants are used for medical treatment, and some for plant protection. Because of their high value, medicinal plants are vulnerable to harvesting. When over-harvesting occurs, it can easily lead to the extinction of medicinal plants. It is essential to ensure the sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants. Some medicinal plants are slow growing or need to be grown in specific environments, which limits the sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants. Medicinal plants have been planted to protect them. This also creates a new demand for the protection of planted medicinal plants. Lifeasible assists in protecting medicinal plants by helping develop protection strategies for medicinal plants in nature and planted medicinal plants.
Fig. 1 Medicinal plant Lycium chinense Miller.
The protection of medicinal plants is relatively special. It is necessary to protect them from pests and diseases and to enhance the content of their active medicinal substances. Only this protection strategy can achieve sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants. We offer services to help achieve sustainable protection of medicinal plants.
Investigate and test medicinal plant habitats
Environmental factors not only affect the distribution of medicinal plants but also play a crucial role in the formation of their active substances. Investigation and testing of medicinal plant habitats help to understand the growing conditions of medicinal plants. We help to investigate and test the habitats of medicinal plants. Our services focus on medicinal plants that require special environments to produce active medicinal substances. We can provide comprehensive habitat data of medicinal plants, including soil environment data, environmental condition data, and geographic distribution data. These data can help develop planting programs for medicinal plants and facilitate their protection.
Medicinal plant breeding
Protecting medicinal plants requires maximizing the pharmaceutical activity of the planted medicinal plants. We help investigate the mechanisms of the production of active substances (especially secondary metabolites) in medicinal plants and help develop methods to enhance the active substances of medicinal plants. In addition, we also help develop varieties of medicinal plants that are easy to grow.
Medicinal plant cultivation strategy development
We offer services to develop strategies for planted medicinal plants. We help explore the best environment for cultivating medicinal plants, including soil environment, microbial environment, and temperature and humidity conditions. Then, we also help investigate the susceptibility of planted medicinal plants to pests and diseases and develop appropriate treatment strategies. In addition, we can offer to use gene editing and other means to enhance the yield of active substances in medicinal plants. These strategies can lead to the efficient planting of medicinal plants. Thus, medicinal plants can be protected.
Development of protection strategies for wild medicinal plants
For wild medicinal plants, we offer services to predict their potential distribution. Our commonly used prediction model is Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt). This method can directly produce spatially explicit habitat suitability maps. We will first build a model based on the main environmental variables of medicinal plants. We will then predict or identify the areas where medicinal plants can grow by current bioclimatic variables. If needed, we can also use this model to predict the future distribution of medicinal plants.
Lifeasible is dedicated to protecting plants and provides customized protection services for medicinal plants. We have extensive experience in environmental testing, plant protection, plant breeding, metabolite research, and computer modeling. We can help achieve customized protection of medicinal plants. Please contact us to serve you.
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Lifeasible has established a one-stop service platform for plants. In addition to obtaining customized solutions for plant genetic engineering, customers can also conduct follow-up analysis and research on plants through our analysis platform. The analytical services we provide include but are not limited to the following:
