Taxus
Subtitle: the genus taxus
By: edited by Hideji Itokawa and Kuo-Hsiung Lee.
Contributors: Itokawa, Hideji.; Lee, Kuo-Hsiung.
Series: Medicinal and aromatic plants--industrial profiles -- v. 32.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Paclitaxel.; Taxus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Hideji Itokawa; title: Biosynthesis of taxoids / Ushio Sankawa and Hideji Itokawa; title: Taxoids occuring in the genus taxus / Hideji Itokawa; title: Physical methods for identification of the structures of taxoids / Masayoshi Oyama and Hideji Itokawa; title: Plant tissue culture of taxoids / Koichi Takeya; title: The commercial cultivation of taxus species and production of taxoids; title: Yoshinari Kikuchi and Mitsuyoshi Yatagai; title: Analytical aspects of taxoids / Mutsuo Kozuka, Susan Morris-Natschke, and Kuo-Hsiung Lee; title: Chemistry of taxol and related taxoids / Hui-Kang Wang, Hironori Ohtsu, and Hideji Itokawa; title: Total synthesis of taxoids / Zhiyan Xiao, Hideji Itokawa, and Kuo-Hsiung Lee; title: Structure-activity relationships of taxoids / Xihong Wang, Hideji Itokawa, and Kuo-Hsiung Lee; title: Preclinical and clinical studies of the taxanes / David T. Brown; title: Paclitaxel content of yews in Ireland / Ingrid Hook and Dairine Dempsey.