Overview

Humans have utilized the bioactive principles of different plants for various beneficial physiological properties including antimicrobial properties for many centuries. However, interests of using medicinal plants declined in the 20th century with the availability of effective synthetic antimicrobial drugs. The development of microbial resistance to various drugs has accelerated research interests towards the use of phytochemicals as alternatives to synthetic drugs in the recent years. This book presents an comprehensive reviews on the antimicrobial and antiviral properties of numerous recently reported phytochemicals, and their mechanisms of antimicrobial actions. Some of the chapters have critically discussed the beneficial and adverse effects of antibacterial, and stimulatory activities of dietary phytochemicals on rumen microbial populations, and gut microbial populations of humans and animals. Microbial adaptation and resistance of microbes to phytochemicals has also been highlighted. On the applied apects, the use of phytochemicals against drug resistance microbes, to treat microbial diseases, for food preservation, to inhibit methanogenic archaea in the rumen, and to modulate lipid biohydrogenating microbial populations to increase conjugated linoleic acids in animal-derived foods have been presented in different chapters.

Full Product Details

Author:   Amlan K. Patra
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2012 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9789401784887

ISBN 10:   9401784884
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   13 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

List of contributors.- Preface .-  1 An overview of antimicrobial properties of different classes of phytochemicals.-  2 Antimicrobial properties of flavonoids.-  3 Antiviral properties of Phytochemicals.-  4 Antimicrobial properties of organosulfur compounds.-  5 Antimicrobial activities of essential oils.-  6 Phytochemicals against drug-resistant microbes.-  7 Phytochemicals as anti-microbial food preservatives.-  8 Dietary tannins on microbial ecology of the gastrointestinal tract in ruminants.-  9 Manipulating ruminal biohydrogenation by the use of plants bioactive compounds.-  10 Essentials oils and rumen microbial populations.-  11 Saponins: effects on rumen microbial ecosystem and metabolism in the rumen.-  12 Effect of plant secondary metabolites on rumen methanogens and methane emissions by ruminants.-  13 Phytochemicals and gut microbial populations in non-ruminants.- Index.  

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions