MPDB 2.0: a large scale and integrated medicinal plant database of Bangladesh

Abstract

Objective MPDB 2.0 is built to be the continuation of MPDB 1.0, to serve as a more comprehensive data repertoire for Bangladeshi medicinal plants, and to provide a user-friendly interface for researchers, health practitioners, drug developers, and students who wish to study the various medicinal & nutritive plants scattered around Bangladesh and the underlying phytochemicals contributing to their efficacy in Bangladeshi folk medicine. Results MPDB 2.0 database (https://www.medicinalplantbd.com/) comprises a collection of more than five hundred Bangladeshi medicinal plants, alongside a record of their corresponding scientific, family, and local names together with their utilized parts, information regarding ailments, active compounds, and PubMed ID of related publications. While medicinal plants are not limited to the borders of any country, Bangladesh and its Southeast Asian neighbors do boast a huge collection of potent medicinal plants with considerable folk-medicinal history compared to most other countries in the world. Development of MPDB 2.0 has been highly focused upon human diseases, albeit many of the plants indexed here can serve in developing biofuel (e.g.: Jatropha curcas used in biofuel) or bioremediation technologies (e.g.: Amaranthus cruentus helps to reduce cadmium level in soil) or nutritive diets (Terminalia chebula can be used in nutritive diets) or cosmetics (Aloe vera used in cosmetics), etc.

Construção de um banco de dados das plantas medicinais aromáticas da Região do Baixo Tocantins, Amazônia, Pará, Brasil: resultados preliminares

“…A curto prazo, uma das metas do grupo de parceiros dessa empreitada, será montar uma oleoteca vinculada ao BDPMA. Entretanto, as múltiplas utilidades de um banco de dados podem ser evidenciadas a partir da análise de plantas indexadas que podem servir para o desenvolvimento de biocombustíveis, biotecnologias, alimentos funcionais ou como cosméticos (Hussain et al 2021).…”

“…A informatização de coleções etnobotânicas tem contribuído para construção de bancos dados robustos, tais como o MPDB 2.0 em Bangladesch (Hussain et al 2021), AfroBD na África (Ntie-Kang et al 2013), IMPPAT na Índia (Mohanraj et al 2018) e o JABOT no Brasil (Silva et al 2017). A disponibilidade de informações sobre a quantificação da biodiversidade será importante para detectar as regiões com pouca ou sem informações sobre a biodiversidade amazônica e, ainda, alertar sobre o quanto as monoculturas, os projetos desenvolvimentistas e as ocupações urbanas desordenadas podem contribuir para perda da diversidade da flora, principalmente, das plantas medicinais (Ribeiro et al 2020).…”

Comparative de novo transcriptome analysis of flower and root of Oliveria decumbens Vent. to identify putative genes in terpenes biosynthesis pathway

“…Unigenes BLAST was performed based on the NCBI nucleotide database and finally, genes were selected by highest e-value and identity percentage, for gene ontology and network analyses and performed Convert Gene ID (homology search) based on the Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism. To convert gene identifications (GI) of identified genes to homolog GIs in Arabidopsis thaliana , the ensemble plant database and web-based Biomart software were used (( Kinsella et al, 2011 ; Hussain et al, 2021 ).…”

OrangeExpDB: an integrative gene expression database for Citrus spp.

“…Recently, numerous online databases have been established, including CPBD [ 25 ], NGDC [ 26 ], TeaPGDB [ 27 ], BarleyExpDB [ 24 ], PlantcircBase [ 28 ], GRooT [ 29 ], PHI-base [ 30 ], and MPDB [ 31 ]. Notebly, these databases not only store data, but also offer various tools for analyzing biological data, such as BLAST [ 24 , 25 ].…”