Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. An Historical Perspective of Ancient Poisons

   • Horace G. Cutler

   Pages 1-13

3. Plants and Plant Products Used in Mummification

   • A. Rosalie David

   Pages 15-31

4. Plants Used Medically by Indigenous Peoples

   • Walter H. Lewis

   Pages 33-74

5. Plants as Sources of Medicinally and Pharmaceutically Important Compounds

   • A. Douglas Kinghorn

   Pages 75-95

6. Socio-Economic Poisons: Khat, The Natural Amphetamine

   • Rudolf Brenneisen, Mahmoud A. ElSohly

   Pages 97-116

7. Antiparasitic Agents from Plants

   • Robert P. Borris, James M. Schaeffer

   Pages 117-158

8. Antifungal Compounds from Plants

   • Joseph Kuc

   Pages 159-184

9. Nematicidal Compounds from Plants

   • David J. Chitwood

   Pages 185-204

10. Herbicidal Compounds from Higher Plants

    • Horace G. Cutler

    Pages 205-226

11. Insecticidal Compounds from Plants

    • William S. Bowers

    Pages 227-235

12. Natural Medicines are Natural Pesticides?

    • J. A. Duke

    Pages 237-245

13. Natural Toxicants in Foods

    • Ross C. Beier, Herbert N. Nigg

    Pages 247-367

14. Future for Natural Products

    • Herbert N. Nigg, David S. Seigler

    Pages 369-376

15. Back Matter

    Pages 377-445

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This book was tbe result of a symposium beld at tbe American Cbernical Society meeting in Miami Beacb, Florida, September 10-15, 1989. The symposium was jointly sponsored by Tbe Society for Economfc Botany and tbe American Cbernical Society Food and Natural Product sub division. Tbere were five speakers. During tbe social sessions (mostly over drinks in abotel room), it became obvious tbat, regardless of tbe discipline, we were all speaking tbe same language. Yet, prior to tbe symposium, only a few of tbe participants knew one anotber. We decided to expand tbe symposium into a book. The book would, we boped, accomplish for otbers wbat we bad discovered in ourselves. That is, the field of Natural Products is broad, but similar in techniques and approach, ancient but modern, and bas been and continues to be extremely valuable to humankind. We wanted the book to serve as an introductory text for courses and as a reference work for the future. We also determined to include the structure of every chemical in the chapter where it was mentioned so the reader would not have to find the structure somewhere else or to try and deduce the structure from the chemical name. Little did we know what an undertaking these goals would be or the time this would take.

• agriculture
• botanics
• natural products
• pesticide
• plant
• plants
• poison
• research
• Tree Biology

• The University of Florida, Lake Alfred, USA

  Herbert N. Nigg

• University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

  David Seigler

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