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Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics reviews the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plant tribes and genera, and their relevance to drug efficacy. Medicinal plants provide a myriad of pharmaceutically active components, which have been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and worldwide for thousands of years. Increasing interest in plant-based medicinal resources has led to additional discoveries of many novel compounds, in various angiosperm and gymnosperm species, and investigations on their chemotaxonomy, molecular phylogeny and pharmacology. Chapters in this book explore the interrelationship within traditional Chinese medicinal plant groups and between Chinese species and species outside of China. Chapters also discuss the incongruence between chemotaxonomy and molecular phylogeny, concluding with chapters on systems biology and -omics technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics), and how they will play an increasingly important role in future pharmaceutical research.

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Author:   Hao Da ,  Xiao Jie Gu ,  Pei-Gen Xiao
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9780081000854

ISBN 10:   0081000855
Pages:   694
Publication Date:   25 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1 Chemotaxonomy: a phylogeny-based approach Chapter 2 High-throughput sequencing in medicinal plant transcriptome studies Chapter 3 Taxus medicinal resources: a comprehensive study Chapter 4 Phytochemical and biological research of Chelidonieae pharmaceutical resources Chapter 5 Chemical and biological studies of Aconitum pharmaceutical resources Chapter 6 Chemical and biological studies of Cimicifugeae pharmaceutical resources Chapter 7 Chemical and biological research of Clematis medicinal resources Chapter 8 Potentilla and Rubus medicinal plants: potential non-Camellia tea resources Chapter 9 Phytochemistry and biology of Ilex pharmaceutical resources Chapter 10 Phytochemical and biological research of Fritillaria medicinal resources References Keyword index

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Da-Cheng Hao is Professor and Primary Investigator at the School of Environment and Chemical Engineering and the Biotechnology Institute, at Dalian Jiaotong University, in Dalian, China. He has published widely in the fields of medicinal plant and phytomedicine, and is the author of Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics and Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Chemodiversity and Pharmacotherapy (Academic Press, 2018). Dr. Xiao Jie Gu is a Lecturer at the School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, based at the Biotechnology Institute, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian, P.R China. Professor Pei Gen Xiao is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and the head of Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, based at IMPLAD, CAMS, Beijing, P. R China.

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