Kossel [45] was the first to introduce the term secondary metabolite over one hundred years
ago, stating that'whereas primary metabolites are present in every plant cell that is capable …

This book deals with a variety of aspects of natural product research. It includes review
articles and revised original contributions involving analysis, isolation and structure …

Abstract The Discovery of Medicines from Plants: A Current Biological Perspective. The last
50 years have seen tremendous innovations in the process of discovering novel bioactive …

Higher plants are a source of thousands of natural products, with an almost infinite variety of
different structural variations. These molecules often have specific functions and many of …

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This book has 26 contributing authors, including the editors. The editors include three
professors or professors emeriti of biology, a medical doctor, a retired economic botanist …

The term “plant-derived natural product” is extremely broad and the scope of this chapter is
determined by the nature of lower-abundance secondary metabolites rather than storage …

Plants synthesize an enormous array of organic compounds/metabolites, a large number of
which are involved in facilitating the basic vital processes such as growth, cell division …

Phytochemicals are separated into two classes: primary metabolites and secondary
metabolites. Primary compounds have direct roles in plant growth and development, and …

A unique approach to natural products chemistry, this book relates applications of plant
extracts to the historical progress of civilization. It focuses on selected plants from around the …