Research Catalog

Title

Phytochemical diversity : a source of new industrial products / edited by Stephen Wrigley [and others].

Author

Phytochemical Diversity: A Source of New Industrial Products (Conference) (1996 : University of Sussex)

Publication

Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wrigley, Stephen.
• Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)

Description

xi, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Proceedings of a symposium, organised by the Biotechnology Group (Industrial Division) of the Royal Society of Chemistry, on "Phytochemical diversity : a source of new industrial products" held at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK on 15-17 April 1996.

Series Statement

Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ; 200

Uniform Title

Special publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)) ; 200.

Subject

• Botanical chemistry > Congresses
• Plant Extracts > chemistry
• Biological Products
• Botanical chemistry
• Naturstoff
• Pflanzen
• Industrieprodukt
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Biotechnologie

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers derived from a symposium held at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK on 15-17 April 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Screening of natural products of plant, microbial and marine origin: the NCI experience -- Plants and microbes as complementary sources of chemical diveristy for drug discovery -- Bioactivity-guided isolation of phytochemicals from medicinal plants -- The dictionary of natural products and other information sources for natural products scientists -- The future prospects of the archaic species Ginko biloba -- The ups and downs of the ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery -- Modern science and traditional healing -- Bioactive natural products from Thai medicinal plants -- Novel biologically-active alkaloids from British plants -- Molecular diversity and selective targeting of enzymes in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis -- The industrial utilisation of natural resources: how to quantify demand and compensation -- International instruments, intellectual property and the collaborative exploitation of genetic resources -- In pursuit of insecticidal compounds from plants -- Oncogene-modulated signal transduction inhibitors from plants -- Harnessing phytochemical diversity for drug discovery: the phytera approach -- Biotransformatins applied to plant chemicals: a natural combination -- Partial and semi-synthesis with biological raw materials -- Biosynthetically-patterned terpenoid biotransformations -- Higher plants as a clean source of semiochemicals and genes for their biotechnological production -- Industrial production of Amazonion natural products.

ISBN

• 0854047174
• 9780854047178

OCLC

• ocm37155704
• 37155704
• SCSB-9574490

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library