Plants Research Pro

Plants Research Pro is a portable and highly organized library of knowledge featuring research findings about various bioactive properties of plants, fungi, bacteria and other biomaterials. The app includes research not only on medicinal plants and biomaterials, but also on plants of some general utility, and the library itself is integrated into our powerful recipe builder, which allows users to create novel and exciting health recipes. Our scientists scour hundreds of journals in search of published scientific articles, which we then evaluate, review and include in the app. On top of that, our lab is always working on new recipes that we feature in the app.

While a few services exist that cater to this purpose, we believe that they are all inadequate. Scientific research, and especially the research on plants that may be directly useful or relevant to the public, is firstly reported in the scientific journals, in conference proceedings or to a limited audience. These first reports are usually about a dozen pages long, contain highly technical language, and are usually hard to find. This problem is partly alleviated by the mainstream media who then produce a secondary kind of report - a highly translated version of the research that contains no technical language, but usually still stretches to a few pages in length. A side-problem to this lengthy articulation is that such reports are spread over a vast area of the internet, are difficult to keep track of, and usually get lost with time, leaving only a small number of people who may still remember what they've read a few months down the track. Plants Research app was designed to solve those problems.

First, we search for the articles that we think should be useful to the general public (whether that be for medicinal or other purposes) and we write small reviews that provide some guidance about the findings. Second, we keep the length of the articles not longer than about 1,000 words, so that a person can obtain the key pieces of information with as little effort as possible. Third, we keep everything in the one place - in the database in our app, and we allow users to create highly organized structures, recipes, and lists of articles in such a way that very useful information can be obtained very quickly. Fourth, we use both the technical and plain language, so that the app is suitable both for the expert and for the general public. And fifth, we don't rely on constant internet access to provide content, which means that our app is useful to the outdoors people, campers and off-grid enthusiasts alike. However, we do offer many internet-helper features, such as translation requests button, links to the original article, and quick Google searches for much of the content.

Lastly, we are also selective about the research that we follow. We try to pick articles that may be of some direct practical use whenever possible. To that end, we look at the research that investigates many different medicinal plants, such as those that act as natural antimicrobials, antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals and so on; we look at medicinal plants that may help to detox the body of heavy metals; we look at bioactive plants that may be useful in aquaculture, farming, horticulture, cooking, food preservation and so on; we look at bioactive plants that may offer athletic performance enhancement, exercise support or muscle recovery activity; and we also look at any articles in general, from any other field, that may be of interest. In this sense, our app is like a constantly-expanding textbook of knowledge about plants and other biomaterials and everything is easily accessible.