288 Pages
by
CRC Press
288 Pages
by
CRC Press
288 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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 toxico-sis, and toxicant problems in various geographic areas are in-cluded. Each volume offers an extensive description of chemistry, biosynthesis, analysis, distribution in plants, metabolism in mam-mals and insects, and practical problems in humans and livestock.
1. Glucosinolates 2. Cyanogenic Glycosides 3. Cardiac Glycosides 4. Saponins 5. Aliphatic Nitrocompounds 6. Vicine, Convicine, and Their Aglycones — Divicine and Isouramil 7. Calcinogenic Glycosides 8. Carcinogenic Bracken Glycosides 9. Carboxyatractyloside
Biography
Cheeke, Peter R.