Secondary Metabolites
Publisher: Darshan publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rasipuram, Tamil Nadu, India
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9788193264515
Description: Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of an organism. The secondary metabolites are produced majorly by plants and are called phytochemicals, also by microbes such as bacteria, 
fungi, algae and so on. These secondary metabolites plays a major role in defensive mechanism in plants, as well as its components are used in food industry, pharmaceuticals and so on. The applications and sources of each secondary metabolite is clearly discussed.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Contributors; title: 1. Introduction; title: - Preethi Kathirvel; title: 2. Alkaloids; title: - Poorna Chandrika Sabapathy and Sabarinathan Devaraj; title: 3. Flavonoids; title: - Preethi Kathirvel; title: 4. Steroids 48; title: - Mridul Umesh and Thazeem Basheer; title: 5. Terpenoids; title: – Thazeem Basheer and Mridul Umesh; title: 6. Quinones; title: - Mridul Umesh and Thazeem Basheer; title: 7. Saponins; title: - Sabarinathan Devaraj and Poorna Chandrika Sabapathy; title: 8. Polyketides; title: – Thazeem Basheer and Mridul Umesh