Second Edition
by Leland J. Cseke
Natural Products from Plants offers a thorough inventory of the various types of plant-derived compounds.
Features:
- Offers examples of compounds originally derived from plants for their medicinal, nutritional, and psychological value
- Brings a better understanding to natural products used for pest control; dyes and fibers; food and beverages; flavorings and fragrances; and many other novel compounds
- Contains new characterization methods using modern chromatography and spectroscopy, including one of the only available comprehensive treatments of the use of NMR spectroscopy for the characterization of natural products
- Provides new information on how plant natural products act at target sites in humans
- Includes additional resources and references for conservation of plant species and the natural areas in which they are native
- Provides indexes of plant names-common and scientific-and chemical names used in the text, in addition to the subject index
Contents
- Phytochemicals: The Chemical Components of Plants
- How and Why These Compounds Are Synthesized by Plants
- Regulation of Metabolite Synthesis in Plants
- Plant Natural Products in the Rhizosphere
- Molecular Biology of Plant Natural Products
- The Study of Natural Product Biosynthesis in the Pregenomics and Genomics Eras
- Plant Biotechnology for the Production of Natural Products
- Traditional, Analytical, and Preparative Separations of Natural Products
- Characterization of Natural Products
- Bioassays for Activity
- Modes of Action at Target Sites
- The Uses of Plant Natural Products by Humans and Risks Associated with Their Use
- The Synergy Principle at Work with Plants, Pathogens, Insects, Herbivores, and Humans
- Plant Conservation
- Relationship Between People and Plants
Index
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