What are the potential risks of overharvesting medicinal plants for drug production, and how can we create sustainable alternatives?

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Craig Carlton Dremann

The sustainable alternative is to cultivate them, rather than harvesting from the wild?

Rich C Joseph

Advances in synthetic biology could allow for the production of key active ingredients found in medicinal plants through biotechnological processes. This could reduce the need for harvesting plants altogether, instead using microbial fermentation or other lab-based techniques to produce plant-based compounds.