Secondary metabolites of native forest trees as raw materials for innovative non-wood forest products: An Uruguayan case study. [Resumen de poster].

Secondary metabolites of Uruguayan native forest trees hold a great potential for new biomaterials applications in the national forest industry but remain poorly investigated. This work presents a synthesis of the main issues in identification, separation and chemical characterization of selected forest tree secondary metabolites as raw materials for innovative non-wood forest products, reached through an inter-institutional agreement between the National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA - Uruguay) and the Faculty of Chemistry of the Republic University of Uruguay.