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Functions and Biotechnology of Plant Secondary Metabolites 2nd Edition
Michael Wink
Hardcover, 424 pages, May 2010,
Price: $199.99 (Shipping and handling: $8.00 for U.S. delivery, $20.00 elsewhere).
This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date survey of the functions of plant secondary metabolites, their modes of action and their use in pharmacology as molecular probes, in medicine as therapeutic agents, and in agriculture as biorational pesticides. The possibilities to produce valuable natural products in plant cell and tissue culture and even in recombinant microorganisms are also reviewed.
CONTENTS
Preface 1 Introduction, Michael Wink 2 Molecular Modes of Action of Defensive Secondary Metabolites, Michael Wink and Oskar Schimmer 3 Chemical Defence in Marine Ecosystems, Annika Putz and Peter Proksch 4 Plant–Microbe Interactions and Secondary Metabolites with Antibacterial, Antifungal and Antiviral Properties, Jürgen Reichling 5 New Medical Applications of Plant Secondary Metabolites, Jörg Heilmann 6 Production of Natural Products by Plant Cell and Organ Cultures, August-Wilhelm Alfermann Index
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