Bioactive Compounds from Plants

The role of ethnopharmacology in drug development, N.R.Farnsworth; ethnobotany and the identification of therapeutic agents from the rainforest, M.J.Balick; ethnopharmacology and the search for new drugs, P.Cox; some problems in the structural elucidation of fungal metabolites, W.Steglich, et al; naturally occurring cyclohexene epoxides revisited, C.Mahidol; synthesis of antifeedants for insects - novel behaviour - modifying chemicals from plants, S.Ley; chemical synthesis of bioactive polyamines from solanceous plants, A.Thiengchanya, et al; plagiarizing plants - aminosugars as a class of glycosidase inhibitors, G.W.J.Fleet, et al; role of secondary metabolites in chemical defence mechanisms in plants, J.B.Harborne; phytoalexins as part of induced defence reactions in plants - their elicitation, function and metabolism, W.Barz, et al; an economic and technical assessment of the use of plant cell cultures for natural product synthesis on an industrial scale, M.W.Fowler, et al; opportunities for bioactive compounds in transgenic plants, T.C.Hall, et al; gene transfer methods for plants and cell cultures, I.Potrykus; compounds from plants that regulate or participate in disease resistance, J.Kuc.