Hi all,

You may or may not remember me. I was active in this forum last summer. Then I became very busy with my uni work and now I'm in my final year. I have been assigned a project looking at the antimicrobial properties of plants and I've been breaking my head over this. I'm trying to find the most obscure plants to test for i.e no published work (in the scientific literature) on these plants and I'm failing miserably on this. Its shocking (for a newbie like me) how much is published and whenever I find something promising, I find a lot of similar work done already. If any of you know of anything interesting thats been used traditionally please post some info on the plant so I can search the literature. Thanks for your help.



PS: From what I can remember Nat Sci forum is still the same with warring YEC's and what have you. This will serve as something different to think about.

I'm not a botanist, so I can't help much, but I would like to comment on this:

Originally posted by Zimri

Its shocking (for a newbie like me) how much is published and whenever I find something promising, I find a lot of similar work done already.

That pretty much sums up my entire experience with grad school.

-Neil

lol I know. Its kinda annoying. So no one knows of any plants/plant product they might have used as an antiseptic??? Hmm. I'll have to seek divine guidance then.

Just a brief google search turned this up:Antiseptic Plants.



Amusingly, your OP is listed as the #5 link.

Originally posted by Carrikature

Just a brief google search turned this up:Antiseptic Plants.

Thanks for the link, Carrikature. I think I may have come across it before. Thing is, it lists those plants that have already been well documented in the scientific literature so, I'm still out of luck......

Amusingly, your OP is listed as the #5 link.

That's very curious. You would have thought that there would be more info on the web about antiseptic plants than that!