Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- And Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Kinghorn, A. Douglas (Editor), Falk, Heinz (Editor), Kobayashi, Junichi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3709119375 ISBN-13: 9783709119372 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $522.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Biochemistry - Medical | Biochemistry - Science | Chemistry - Organic |
Dewey: 572.28 |
Series: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products |
Physical Information: 796 pages |
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Publisher Description: For some 50 years, Professor Asakawa and his group have focused their research on the chemical constituents of bryophytes and have found that these plants contain large numbers of secondary metabolites, such as terpenoids, acetogenins, and aromatic compounds representative of many new skeletons, which exhibit interesting biological activities. Individual terpenoids, when found as constituents of both a bryophyte and a higher plant, tend to occur in different enantiomeric forms. Professor Asakawa has covered the literature on bryophytes in two earlier volumes of Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, namely, Volumes 42 (1982) and 65 (1995). Since the publication of the latter volume, a great deal of new information has appeared on bryophytes. One example is that known sex pheromones of algae have been discovered in two liverworts, indicating that some members of the latter taxonomic group might originate from brown algae. From information provided in this volume, it is suggested that two orders of the Marchantiophyta should be combined.
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