Saponins used in food and agriculture
By: edited by George R. Waller and Kazuo Yamasaki.
Contributors: Waller, George R.; Yamasaki, Kazuo.; American Chemical Society. Meeting; American Chemical Society Symposium on Saponins: Chemistry and Biological Activity (1995 : Chicago, Ill.)
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;; v. 405
Publisher: Plenum Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Saponins in agriculture -- Congresses; Saponins -- Congresses; Food -- Congresses; Saponins -- chemistry -- congresses; Food Additives -- congresses; Agrochemicals -- congresses; Cosmetics -- congresses
Description: Proceedings of the August 1995 symposium. Thirty-five articles are divided into four sections: cosmetics, sweeteners, herbs, and non- alcoholic beverages; regulatory effects on crops, viruses, microorganisms, weeds and insects; chemical identification using NMR and MS; and nutritional aspects. Topics include biological activity against insects; structural determinations; applications in foods and cosmetics; intensely sweet saponin osladin; phytotoxicity on weed and crop plants; regulatory effects in the pathogenesis of root rots in cereal crops; and impacts on animal production.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Proceedings of the 210th national meeting of the American Chemical Society Symposium on Saponins: Chemistry and Biological Activity, held August 22-25, 1995, in Chicago, Illinois"--T.p. verso.