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Naturally Occurring Bioactive Compounds, 3
Mahendra Rai and Maria Carpinella
Elsevier
September 2006
Hardcover 514 ISBN 9780444522412
£144.00
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This timely book provides an overview of natural products/botanicals used for the management
of insect-pest and diseases. It will help readers to update and widen their knowledge about natural
products and their bio-activities against plant pathogens. The volume explores activity, chemistry, toxicity
and geographic distribution of plants. Discussions concerning the methodology used for the detection of
active principles, their mode of action and commercial prospects are of utmost importance and worthy of note.
Of interest to Phytochemists; Combinatorial Chemists; Pharmacologists; Scientists engaged in
Drug discovery and development; Industrial research groups developing drugs from plants;
Departments of pharmaceutics; Institutes for Drug Research; Pharmaceutical companies; Manufacturers
of herbal and ayurvedic medicines and cosmetic products Manufacturers of natural products.
Contents
Preface
List of contributors
- Natural compounds as antioxidant and moulting inhibitors can play a role as a model for search
of new botanical pesticides
- Pesticides Based on Plant Essential Oils: From Traditional Practice to Commercialization
- Natural substrates and Inhibitors of Multidrug Resistant Pumps (MDRs) redefine the plant antimicrobials
- Rational Design of Multifunctional Anti-Salmonella Agents Based on Natural Products
- Role of Melia azedarach L. (Meliaceae) for the control of insect and acari: Present status and future
prospects
- Bioactivity of Fabaceous Plants Against Food-borne and Plant Pathogens: Potentials and Limitations
- Screening of Plants Against Fungi Affecting Crops and Stored Foods vOpportunities and potentials
of botanical extracts and products for management of insect pests in cruciferous vegetables
- The Potential for Using Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) Extracts for Pine Weevil Management
in Temperate Forestry
- Plant Allelochemicals in Thrips Control Strategies
- Importance of plant secondary metabolites for protection against insects and microbial infections
- Naturally Occurring House Dust Mites Control Agents: Development and Commercialization
- The search for plant-derived compounds with antifeedant activity
- An overview of the
antimicrobial properties of mexican medicinal plants
- Promissory botanical repellents/deterrents for managing two key tropical insect pests, the whitefly
Bemisia tabaci and the mahogany shootborer Hypsipyla grandella
- Naturally occurring anti-insect proteins: Current status and future aspects
- Antifungal Natural Products : Assays and Applications
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