Editors:
- Overviews plant toxin research, providing accessible, comprehensive and current information
- Contributes to a series on all areas of toxinology which is a valuable reference tool
- Presents the work of experts from all around the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Toxinology (TOXI)
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Table of contents (20 entries)
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Front Matter
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General Aspects of Plant Toxins
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Molecular Diversity of Plant Toxins
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Applications of Plant Toxins in Health and Biotechnology
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About this book
This volume, in its over two dozen chapters, constitutes an overview of the current plant toxin research. It covers from general aspects of plant toxicity to in-depth reviews of various classes of toxins, their structures, synthesis, modes of action, and upcoming uses in biotechnology. It provides an encompassing landscape of plant toxinology for both toxinologists and non-toxinologists alike.
Editors and Affiliations
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Instituto do Cérebro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Célia Regina Carlini
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Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Su, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun
About the editors
Celia R. Carlini is presently a senior researcher at the Brain Institute, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and Full Professor (retired) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, both institution located in the city of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Her academic degrees include B.S. in Biomedical Sciences (1978), M.Sc. in Molecular Biology (1981), and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology-Protein Chemistry (1985), all three from the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPM-Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil. Between 1993 and1995, she took post-doctoral training at the Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. She was elected full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Biological Section, in 2009 and since 2003 she is a scholar productivity fellow (level 1B) from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil. She was sectional editor of biochemistry of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2003–2010, and serves since 2003 as a member of the editorial board of Toxicon. She has guest-edited two special volumes of Toxicon,in 2004 and 2010, and one special volume of Toxins in 2012. Her lines of research are focused on isolation and physicochemical characterization of polypeptide toxins from different sources, and structure versus biological activity relationships and mechanisms of action of toxic proteins, particularly from plants. She has supervised about 25 Ph.D. thesis and published 110 refereed papers (until June 2014), cited about 1,600 times, factor H=22 (ISI Web-Of-Sciences).
Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun is currently a research assistant at the Biotechnology Center of Rio Grande do Sul Federal University (UFRGS), Brazil. Employing a wide range of computational approaches, his research topics are chiefly focused on neglected toxins, moonlighting properties of proteins, and the effect of unstructured or metastable regions of polypeptides on the structure-function paradigm. His review article on venomous mammals has attracted readers, being certificated as a hot text bythe toxinology community. Aside from research, Dr. Ligabue-Braun has published chapters of textbooks in Brazil and also coordinated science outreach programs aiming low-income students from local communities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Toxins
Editors: P. Gopalakrishnakone, Célia Regina Carlini, Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun
Series Title: Toxinology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6464-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6463-7Published: 30 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6464-4Published: 20 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2542-761X
Series E-ISSN: 2542-7644
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 473
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology, Animal Biochemistry, Animal Physiology