Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism

Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism is a thorough exploration of the potential uses of plant defense mechanisms. Secondary metabolites can be utilized in agriculture to breed stronger crops and as biorational pesticides. They can also be exploited by medicine as therapeutic agents. And these are just two of the possibilities.-- Presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the subject in which our knowledge has advanced considerably over the past decade-- Offers new insights into the functions of plant secondary metabolics as defense and signal compounds-- Considers the exploitation of plant secondary metabolites in medicine as therapeutic agents and in agriculture as biorational pesticides-- Written by a team of authors from leading laboratories around the worldWink, Michael is the author of 'Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism', published 1999 under ISBN 9780849340857 and ISBN 0849340853.