1st Edition

Toxicants of Plant Origin Phenolics, Volume IV

By Peter R. Cheeke Copyright 1989
240 Pages
by CRC Press

240 Pages
by CRC Press

This comprehensive treatise offers an in-depth discussion of natural toxicants in plants, emphasizing their effects as defenses against herbivory. Coevolution of plants and her-bivores are covered with a detailed treatment of toxicant metabolism and systemic effects in mammalian tissues. Con-sideration of the economic importance of plant toxins, modi-fication by plant breeding, management of... Read more
VOLUME IV: PHENOLICS
Gossypol. Phytoestrogens. Antifertility Agents of Plant Origin. Stypan-drol and Stypandra Toxicosis. Sorghum Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in For-ages and Fibrous Feedstuffs. Polyphenolics and the Nutritional Ecology of Herbivores. Index. c. 240 pp., 7x10, due July 1989, ISBN-0-8493-6993-2.

Biography

Peter R. Cheeke