Plant-derived natural products
Subtitle: synthesis, function, and application
By: Anne E. Osbourn, Virginia Lanzotti [editors]
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9780387854977
Subjects: Natural products; Plant products; Pflanzen; Sekundärmetabolit; Botanical chemistry; Phytochemie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the different classes of natural products / Karen Springob and Toni M. Kutchan; title: Natural products from seaweeds / Efstathia Ioannou and Vassilios Roussis; title: Use of secondary metabolite variation in crop improvement / Daniel J. Kliebenstein; title: Approaches to the analysis of plant-derived natural products / Lionel Hill and Trevor L. Wang; title: Opportunities and challenges for ethnobotany at the start of the twenty-first century / Monique S.J. Simmonds; title: Introduction to the different classes of biosynthetic enzymes / Luzia V. Modolo, Angelika I. Reichert, and Richard A. Dixon; title: Methods for molecular identification of biosynthetic enzymes in plants / Sarah O'Connor; title: Regulation of secondary metabolism by jasmonate hormones / Hongtao Zhang and Johan Memelink; title: Metabolite channeling and multi-enzyme complexes / Brenda S.J. Winkel; title: Glycosylation of secondary metabolites and xenobiotics / Fabián E. Vaistij ... [et al.]; title: Handling dangerous molecules: transport and compartmentation of plant natural products / Markus Klein and Werner Roos; title: Participation of phytochemicals in plant development and growth / Lucille Pourcel and Erich Grotewold; title: Biological activity of defence-related plant secondary metabolites / John P. Morrissey; title: The role of natural products in plant-microbe interactions / Giuliano Bonanomi, Francesco Vinale, and Felice Scala; title: Role of natural products in nature : plant-insect interactions / Ruth Gordon-Weeks and John A. Pickett; title: Oligosaccharide signalling molecules / Robert A. Field; title: Biological activity of allelochemicals / Franck E. Dayan and Stephen O. Duke; title: Health benefits of dietary plant natural products / Maria Traka and Richard F. Mithen; title: Floral scents and fruit aromas inspired by nature / Florence Negre-Zakharov, Michael C. Long, and Natalia Dudareva; title: Bioengineering / Maxim Itkin and Asaph Aharoni; title: Genome wide approaches in natural product research / Jürgen Ehlting ... [et al.]; title: Metabolomics and the detection of unintended effects in genetically modified crops / Laetitia Shintu, Gwénaëlle Le Gall, and Ian J. Colquhoun; title: Recent advances in traditional medicines and dietary supplements / Jeevan Prasain and Stephen Barnes; title: Plant-derived natural products as leads for drug discovery / Li Pan, Esperanza J. Carcache de Blanco, and A. Douglas Kinghorn; title: Speciality non-food crops / Adrian P. Higson and Alison Hamer.