Overview
- Provides a broad, general picture of the role and complexity of phenolic compounds
- Is written in a way that should be accessible to people with basic rather than advanced knowledge of organic chemistry and biochemistry
- Contains several hundred chemical structures to illustrate the tremendous structural diversity of plant phenolic compounds
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
These are just a few examples that illustrate the chemical diversity and use of phenolic compounds, the topic of ‘Phenolic Compound Biochemistry’.
This book is written for researchers, instructors, advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in the life sciences who wish to become more familiar with these and many other intriguing aspects of phenolic compounds. Topics covered include nomenclature, chemical properties, biosynthesis, including an up-to-date overview of the genetics controlling phenolic metabolism, isolation and characterization of phenolic compounds, phenolics used in plant defense, and the impact of phenolics on human health. The book is written in an accessible style, and assumes only basic knowledge of organic chemistry, biochemistry and cell physiology. More than 300 chemical structures and reaction schemes illustrate the text.
Wilfred Vermerris is Associate Professor of Agronomy at the University of Florida Genetics Institute in Gainesville, FL. His research focuses on the genetic control of phenolic compounds that impact agro-industrial processing of crop plants.
Ralph Nicholson is Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. He is an expert on phenolic compounds involved in the plant’s defense against pathogenic fungi and bacteria.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phenolic Compound Biochemistry
Authors: Wilfred Vermerris, Ralph Nicholson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5164-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5163-0Published: 07 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9289-3Published: 14 October 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5164-7Published: 20 February 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 276
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Plant Pathology, Plant Sciences