MEDPLANTS.ncgr.org provides the research community data sets and analysis tools for exploring the species elucidated by the researchers of the Medicinal Plants Consortium. Led by Dr. Norman Lewis, the group includes researchers at Washington State University, the National Center for Genome Resources, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Washington University School of Medicine, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
To date (Augest 2012) the group has investigated the following species:
- Acacia aulacocarpa
- Andrographis paniculata
- Calophyllum antillanum
- Camptotheca acuminata (happy tree)
- Cephalotaxus harringtonia (cowtail pine)
- Cinchona pubescens (quinine)
- Colchicum autumnale (autumn crocus)
- Coleus forskohlii
- Datura ceratocaula
- Datura innoxia
- Datura metel
- Datura stramonium
- Datura wrightii
- Digitalis lanata (woolly foxglove)
- Galanthus spp.
- Galanthus elwesii
- Gloriosa superba
- Huperzia lucidula (clubmoss)
- Huperzia squarrosa
- Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane)
- Larrea tridentata (creosote bush)
- Linum flavum (golden flax)
- Linum usitatissimum (common flax)
- Narcissus spp.
- Papaver somniferum (opium poppy)
- Pilocarpus pennatifolius
- Pimpinella anisum (anise)
- Plectranthus caninus
- Podophyllum hexandrum
- Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple)
- Taxus x media (yew)
- Tripterygium regelii
The work of the Medicinal Plants Consortium has been supported by the National Institutes of Health under Transcriptome Characterization of Medicinal Plants Relevant to Human Health, NIH 1 RC2 GM092561-01.