he research interest of our laboratory is to examine North American prairie plants as a source of novel natural
products.
In addition to novel chemical structures, we are interested in identifying compounds that exhibit biological
activity and may have commercial uses.
We have previously identified compounds that show biological activity against HIV-11 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.2 In addition, we recently introduced a simple screen to identify prairie plants that may be
sources of compounds useful as natural food preservatives