Phytochemicals in human health protection, nutrition, and plant defense
By: edited by John T. Romeo.
Contributors: Romeo, John T.
Series: Recent advances in phytochemistry -- v. 33.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable; Pharmacognosy; Plant bioactive compounds; Botanical chemistry; Plants -- chemistry -- Congresses; Nutrition -- Congresses; Pharmacognosy -- Congresses; Plant Physiology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural product discovery and development / Gordon M. Cragg ... [et al.]; title: Taxol biosynthesis / Kevin Walker and Rodney Croteau; title: Role of lignans in carinogenesis / Lilian U. Thompson; title: Toward engineering the metabolic pathways of cancer-preventing lignans in cereal grains and other crops / Michael A. Costa ... [et al.]; title: Simple (bench-top) bioassays and isolation of new chemically diverse antitumor and pesticidal agents from higher plants / Jerry L. McLaughlin and Ching-Jer Chang; title: Molecular controls for isflavoniod biosynthesis relation to plant and human health / Richard A. Dixon ... [et al.]; title: Medical potential and biosynthesis of plant coumarins / Ulrich Matern; title: Biosynthesis, biodegradation, and cellular localization of hydrolyzable tannins / Georg G. Gross; title: Formation of heartwood and its extractives / W.E. Hillis; title: Recent advances in the chemistry of proanthocyanidins / Daneel Ferreira ... [et al.]; title: Astringency and polyphenol protein interactions / Edwin Haslam ... [et al.]; title: Phytochemistry of bryophytes / Yoshinori Asakawa; title: Biogically active compounds from Buddleja species / Peter H. Houghton and Abraham Y. Mensah; title: Cyanide in foods / Dirk Selmar; title: Plant echochemicals from the viewpoint of plant defense / Junya Mizutani.