Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents of GRAS Herbs and Other Economic Plants : Herbal Reference Library

ISBN-13: 9780849338656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 654 str.

James A. Duke

Opis

CRC Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents of GRAS Herbs and Other Eco nomic Plants is a unique catalog that includes more than 15,000 phytoc hemical constituents from over 1,000 higher plant species. This volume covers all of the generally-recognized-as-safe (GRAS) herbs and at le ast 250 important food and medicinal plants. Each entry features the s cientific name, one or more common names, a listing of phytochemical c onstituents, a single datum or range of quantitative data (wet-weight to dry-weight in parts per million), two-letter abbreviation identifyi ng the plant part, and three-letter abbreviation(s) indicating the sou rce(s) of the data. The extraordinary amount of data compiled into an easy-to-use tabular format makes the CRC Handbook of Phytochemical Con stituents of GRAS Herbs and Other Economic Plants a volume useful to a ll pharmacologists, toxicologists, nutritionists, pharmacognicists, an d food scientists.

Spis treści

Introduction. Codes Used in Databases. References. Alphabetical Listing by Scientific Name.

O autorze

James A. Duke