Biodiversity And Chemotaxonomy

Author : Kishan Gopal Ramawat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030307462

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Biodiversity and Chemotaxonomy by Kishan Gopal Ramawat Pdf

Plant classifications are based on morphological characters and it is difficult, particularly in small plants and grasses, to identify these below generic level on the basis of these characters using a dissecting microscope. Plant species have intra- and inter-specific variation in secondary metabolites which can be utilized as marker compounds for identification and classification of plants. Secondary metabolites are produced as a result of primary metabolism and the production of these compounds not only involves several genes but also it is an energy dependent process. Hence these products cannot be considered as insignificant for the plant and the environment. Modern tools of molecular biology and secondary metabolites present in them can definitively decide about classification of plants. Absence of correct identification of plant is associated to many problems of resource utilization. Due to wide availability of these tools, interest has revived in systematics and correct classification of plants based on these parameters for their sustainable utilization and resource management. The purpose of this book is to assess the potential of phytochemical and molecular tools in the systematic and classification of plants. The topics covered include species concept, barcoding and phylogenetic analysis, chemotaxonomy use of polyketides, carotenes, cuticular wax, volatile oils, biodiversity of corals, metazoans, Ruta and Echinocereus. It provides comprehensive and broad subject-based reviews, useful for students, teachers, researchers, and all others interested in the field. The field has been kept wide and general to accommodate the wide-ranging topics. This book will be useful to agriculturists, chemists, botanists, industrialists, and those involved in planning of crop plants.

Author : Philip M. Smith,Philip Morgans Smith
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000572382

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The Chemotaxonomy of Plants by Philip M. Smith,Philip Morgans Smith Pdf

Author : F Pietra
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0080437079

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Biodiversity and Natural Product Diversity by F Pietra Pdf

Francesco Pietra's study focuses on representative examples of biodiversity and natural products that exhibit diversity drawn from the literature and the author's own observations.

Author : R. K. Tandon,Prithipalsingh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : IND:30000064291994

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Biodiversity, Taxonomy, and Ecology by R. K. Tandon,Prithipalsingh Pdf

Author : Nabil Semmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Herbaceous plants
ISBN : 1616687894

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Chemotaxonomical Analyses of Herbaceous Plants Based on Phenolic and Terpenic Patterns by Nabil Semmar Pdf

Analysis of plant diversity aims to understand the organisation and the variability of biological populations within ecosystems. In classical analysis, individual plants are firstly identified on the basis of morphological/cytological parameters, then biodiversity is evaluated tacking into account presences/absences, abundances and densities of plants. Although morphological parameters are easily accessible, they provide limited precision on the differentiation between individuals that share a high similarity. This book provides illustrations on different chemotaxonomical criteria helping to understand complex structures of plant diversity. It focuses particularly on the chemotaxonomic usefulness of phenolic compounds (phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, etc.) and sesquiterpenes in analysis of plant chemical polymorphisms at different systematic levels (from family to variety and chemotype via genus and species).

Author : Smith,Philip M. Smith
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Chemotaxonomy
ISBN : 044419455X

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The Chemotaxonomy of Plants by Smith,Philip M. Smith Pdf

Taxonomy is the theory and practice of classification, and chemotaxonomy incorporates the principles and procedures involved in the use of chemical evidence for classificatory purposes. Chemical Systematics is the study of the chemical variation in a diversity of organisms, and of their relationships. This book does not aim to give accounts of the systematics of any group of plants but rather to introduce and illustrate the ways in which chemical data may be used with profit to taxonomists.

Author : Gen-ichiro Arimura,Massimo Maffei
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315353371

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Plant Specialized Metabolism by Gen-ichiro Arimura,Massimo Maffei Pdf

Recent advances in science have clarified the role of plant specialized metabolites (classically known as plant secondary metabolites), which cannot be considered only bioactive molecules used for human health but also pivotal factors for the global ecosystem. They play major roles in plant life, evolution, and mutualism. To provide the reader a general view of plant specialized metabolites, it is important to consider both the biochemistry and the functional/ecological role of these important compounds. Around 200,000 specialized metabolites are formed by a wide array of plant metabolic pathways from numerous plant taxa and through learning how other species (including human beings) rely on them. Plant Specialized Metabolism: Genomics, Biochemistry, and Biological Functions will provide the reader with special insights into the sophisticated nature of these metabolites and their various and valuable uses based on the most recent findings in science. The field of plant specialized metabolism has witnessed tremendous growth in the past decade. This growth has had a profound impact on multiple disciplines in life science, including biochemistry, metabolism, enzymology, natural product chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical ecology, and evolution. It also has yielded valuable knowledge and technology readily applicable in various industries, such as agriculture, horticulture, energy, renewable chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The book focuses on the molecular background of secondary metabolite biosynthesis, their functional role, and potential applications.

Author : Anne-Geneviève Bagnères,Martine Hossaert-McKey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119329824

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Chemical Ecology by Anne-Geneviève Bagnères,Martine Hossaert-McKey Pdf

The book features comparative perspectives on the field of chemical ecology, present and future, offered by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines. The scientists contributing to this book –biologists, ecologists, biochemists, chemists, biostatisticians – are interested in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems and work on life forms ranging from micro-organisms to mammals, including humans, living in areas from the tropics to polar regions. Here, they cross their analyses of the present state of chemical ecology and its perspectives for the future. Those presented here include complex, multispecies communities and cover a wide range both of organisms and of the types of molecules that mediate the interactions between them. Up to now, no book has presented a solid scientific treatment of a wide range of examples. This book illustrates a diverse panel of the most advanced aspects of this rapidly expanding field.

Author : Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031232435

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Bioactive Compounds in Bryophytes and Pteridophytes by Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy Pdf

This reference work provides a comprehensive overview of bioactive compounds investigated in bryophytes and pteridophytes and explores their nutritional, biological, pharmacological and ecological effects. Bryophytes are cosmopolitan lower plants that are rich in phytochemicals including fatty acids, tocopherols, phenolics, terpenoids. Additionally, these plants contain bibenzyls, bis-benzyls, and polyketides which have been demonstrated to have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and cytotoxic activities. Pteridophytes are another group of lower vascular plants which were reported to have useful secondary compounds such as flavonoids, steroids, phenolics, terpenoids, and these plants impart medicinal values including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and anti-HIV activities. This book contains comprehensive contributions compiled by expert scientists and researchers in this field.The book offers a useful resource for plant biotechnologists, plant biologists, pharmacologists, pharmacists, food technologists, nutritionists, research investigators of the healthcare industry, academia, faculty, and students of biology and biomedical sciences. It also provides a strategic framework for further research and development activities of bryophytes and pteridophytes of the world.

Author : Didier Stien
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039361823

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Marine Microbial Diversity as a Source of Bioactive Natural Products by Didier Stien Pdf

A trillion different microbial species have been evolving for some 3.5 billion years, producing ever more complex active secondary metabolites. The sea is a cauldron of a great diversity of useful and valuable compounds. This Special Issue focused on studies of marine microbe natural products for discovering compounds useful to humankind. Papers were collected that provide up-to-date information regarding the characterization of marine microbes’ metabolic diversity and the evaluation of the therapeutic potential of marine microbes’ metabolites. Most of the articles in this book deal with marine fungi, biological and chemical diversity, and their active metabolites. This may be a sign that marine fungi have been under studied to date and are perceived by many researchers as an important source of discovery in this field. A best practices guide for the isolation of marine fungi from different matrixes and their conservation is also presented. The comparison of the phylogenetic and metabolomic profiles of microalgae from different lineages provides novel insights into the potential of chemotaxonomy in marine phytoplankton, showing a good overlap of phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic signals.

Author : Ignacio Rojas,Francisco Ortuño
Publisher : Springer
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319561486

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Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering by Ignacio Rojas,Francisco Ortuño Pdf

This two volume set LNBI 10208 and LNBI 10209 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2017, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2017. The 122 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 309 submissions. The scope of the conference spans the following areas: advances in computational intelligence for critical care; bioinformatics for healthcare and diseases; biomedical engineering; biomedical image analysis; biomedical signal analysis; biomedicine; challenges representing large-scale biological data; computational genomics; computational proteomics; computational systems for modeling biological processes; data driven biology - new tools, techniques and resources; eHealth; high-throughput bioinformatic tools for genomics; oncological big data and new mathematical tools; smart sensor and sensor-network architectures; time lapse experiments and multivariate biostatistics.

Author : Ponnadurai Ramasami
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783110783629

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Biochemical and Environmental Applications by Ponnadurai Ramasami Pdf

Chapters collected from “The Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2021) – Research and Innovations in Chemical Sciences: Paving the Way Forward”. This conference was held in August 2021 and organized by the Computational Chemistry Group of the University of Mauritius. These peer-reviewed chapters offer insights into research on fundamental and applied chemistry with interdisciplinary subject matter.

Author : Halina Maria Ekiert,Kishan Gopal Ramawat,Jaya Arora
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030747794

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Medicinal Plants by Halina Maria Ekiert,Kishan Gopal Ramawat,Jaya Arora Pdf

Medicinal plant research is an evergreen subject. There is a tremendous increase in popularity of herbal medicine in traditional medicine, ethnomedicine, modern medicine and as over the counter food supplements. Even after this increased demand, supply is neither uniform nor assured as most of these plants are collected from wild. In developing countries of tropical and subtropical regions where majority of herbal drugs are produced, this is not organised sector making it vulnerable to several malpractices, hence standardization of all aspects required. This has also negative impact on biodiversity and conservation of plants as well as supply of uniform material. This book is aimed to provide up to date information about sustainable use of selected medicinal plants, their active ingredients and efforts made to domesticate them to ensured uniform supply. Development of agrotechnology, biotechnology and cultivation practices using conventional and non-conventional methods are presented. Where these efforts will lead the medicinal plant research and future perspective are discussed. The chapters are written by well recognised group leaders in working in the field. The book contains topics on general biology of medicinal plants, their sustainable use and, cultivation and domestication efforts. A uniform chapter structure has been designed to keep consistency. The book will be useful for academicians, agriculturists, biotechnologists and researcher, and industries involved in manufacturing herbal drugs and supplementary products.

Author : Bratati De
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781837670451

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Chemical Diversity of Plant Specialized Metabolites: A Biosynthetic Approach by Bratati De Pdf

The phytochemical constituents of plants fall into two main categories based on their role in basic metabolic processes: primary and secondary. Primary metabolites are involved in basic life functions and are similar in all living cells, whereas secondary metabolites are derived from subsidiary pathways. Although traditionally referred to as secondary metabolites, more recently these compounds have been termed 'plant specialized metabolites', as the exact biochemical boundary between primary and secondary metabolites has not been fully established. Plant specialized metabolites are the main element in the study and use of 'medicinal' plants and herbs, as well as in nutrition and food chemistry. In modern medicine, plant specialized metabolites provide many of the lead compounds in the production of medicines targeted at treating a broad variety of diseases. Such metabolites also play an important role in sessile plants: to resist and withstand different biotic and abiotic stresses. Plant specialized metabolites are classified according to their chemical structures and this book will present the different classes in turn, while discussing their sources and distribution in plant families, their biosynthetic pathways, and their important and notable uses in phytochemistry and pharmacology. Chemical Diversity of Plant Specialized Metabolites will be a useful guide and reference point for chemists and students in many disciplines including synthetic organic chemists, medicinal chemists, plant scientists, pharmacognosists, chemical ecologists, bioengineers, and synthetic biologists, in addition to those working in related fields.

Author : Da-Cheng Hao
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128142332

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Ranunculales Medicinal Plants by Da-Cheng Hao Pdf

Ranunculales Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Chemodiversity and Pharmacotherapy comprehensively covers this order of flowering plants, detailing the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plants families and genera and their relevance to drug efficacy. The book carries out an exhaustive survey of the literature in order to characterize global trends in the application of flexible technologies. The interrelationship between Chinese species, and between Chinese and non-Chinese species, is inferred through molecular phylogeny and based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequencing. The book discusses the conflict between chemotaxonomy and molecular phylogeny in the context of drug discovery and development. Users will find invaluable and holistic coverage on the study of Ranunculales that will make this the go-to pharmaceutical resource. Describes current perceptions of biodiversity and chemodiversity of Ranunculales Explains how the conceptual framework of plant pharmacophylogeny benefits the sustainable exploitation of Ranunculales Details how Ranunculales medicinal plants work from the chemical level upward Covers how the polypharmacology of Ranunculales compounds might inspire new chemical entity design and development for improved treatment outcomes