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Medicinal Plants
Chemistry, Biology and Omics

Reviews the Phytochemistry, Chemotaxonomy, Molecular biology and Phylogeny of selected medicinal plant tribes and genera and their relevance to drug efficacy

Da-Cheng Hao (Author), Xiao Jie Gu (Author), Pei Gen Pei Gen Xiao (Author)

9780081000854, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 25 June 2015

694 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.7 cm, 0.85 kg

Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics reviews the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plant tribes and genera, and their relevance to drug efficacy.

Medicinal plants provide a myriad of pharmaceutically active components, which have been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and worldwide for thousands of years. Increasing interest in plant-based medicinal resources has led to additional discoveries of many novel compounds, in various angiosperm and gymnosperm species, and investigations on their chemotaxonomy, molecular phylogeny and pharmacology.

Chapters in this book explore the interrelationship within traditional Chinese medicinal plant groups and between Chinese species and species outside of China. Chapters also discuss the incongruence between chemotaxonomy and molecular phylogeny, concluding with chapters on systems biology and “-omics? technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics), and how they will play an increasingly important role in future pharmaceutical research.

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Chemotaxonomy: a phylogeny-based approach
  • Chapter 2 High-throughput sequencing in medicinal plant transcriptome studies
  • Chapter 3 Taxus medicinal resources: a comprehensive study
  • Chapter 4 Phytochemical and biological research of Chelidonieae pharmaceutical resources
  • Chapter 5 Chemical and biological studies of Aconitum pharmaceutical resources
  • Chapter 6 Chemical and biological studies of Cimicifugeae pharmaceutical resources
  • Chapter 7 Chemical and biological research of Clematis medicinal resources
  • Chapter 8 Potentilla and Rubus medicinal plants: potential non-Camellia tea resources
  • Chapter 9 Phytochemistry and biology of Ilex pharmaceutical resources
  • Chapter 10 Phytochemical and biological research of Fritillaria medicinal resources
  • References
  • Keyword index

Subject Areas: Plant physiology [PSTD], Botany & plant sciences [PST], Biochemistry [PSB], Genetics [non-medical PSAK]
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