This reference work provides a wealth of information regarding medicinal plants and phytochemicals. It is addressed both to researchers and teachers.
The handbook describes phytochemicals, which, by the strictest definition, are chemicals that are produced by plants. During the last decades, more and moregroupsbecame actively involved in exploring plants for useful metabolites that lead to the identification of several useful curative agents and many promising molecules to fight and/orprevent diseases, including carcinogenesis and stroke. But when we talk about phytochemicals, there...
This reference work provides a wealth of information regarding medicinal plants and phytochemicals. It is addressed both to researchers and teacher...
Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert...
Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic condition...
