Taxus
Subtitle: The Genus Taxus (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)
Contributors: Hideji Itokawa (Editor); Kuo-Hsiung Lee (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: February 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780415298377
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Oncology; Pharmacology; Pharmacy; Medical / Pharmacology; Life Sciences - Botany; Reference; Paclitaxel; Taxus
First sentence: As mentioned in the book edited by Suffness (1995), "the approval of Taxol (paclitaxel) for marketing in December of 1992 was the culmination of 30 years of work that began with the collection of Taxus brevifolia in Washington state in 1962."