Rapporti tra ricerche agronomiche e farmacobotaniche: problemi ed esperienze

Relationships between agronomie, pharmacological and botanical researches: problems and experiences. - The developrnent of officina! planrs fìeld cultivation in marginaI lands can be imporram far their economie expansion. Different factors affccr the diffusion of rhese cult ivarions: the liule knowledge of the biological processes direcdy involved in the synrhesis of molecules (har economically charactcrise the drugs. Thc knowledge of rhese processes is important becausc. [h~ agr~nom!c rechr?iques should rake !nto account (har generally in planrs (h~ pro~uc(ion of acrive principles may comClde wlth dlfferenoaove processes. USlIlg H peiforatum as a mode! we have lnves(lgated morphological, biochemical and physioloSical characteristics of che leaf organs containing hypericin. The possibilicy re introduce fìeld culrivations of rhis species m the mountain environment ofValle Camonica is the topic of a research projecr having the aim re evaluare the responses of different ecorypes in terms of active principle production.