The biochemistry of plant phenolics
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The biochemistry of plant phenolics
(Annual proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe, v. 25)
Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 1985
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Papers presented at a conference held at the Rijksuniversiteit-Gent, Belgium on August 28-31, 1984
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume contains the presentations of the twenty-three invited speakers at the meeting entitled 'The Biochemistry of Plant Phenolics' held at Rijksuniversiteit-Gent, Belgium in August 1984. The profusion and irregular distribution of phenolic compounds in plants has exercised the minds of phytochemists for many years. Chemists have pondered their structure, physiologists their function, and taxonomists their distribution. Newer separatory and analytical techniques have greatly aided these studies, and include HPLC, NMR, and mass spectrometry as well as the venerable colour reactions. They have produced a wealth of new information which is considered among others with relation to lignins, neoflavanoids, flavanoid oligomers, tannins and quinones. New techniques have also aided the biochemist, so the biosynthesis and intracellular location of the phenols are also discussed. Indeed, the factors controlling the synthesis of flavonoids in parsley is as well or better understood at the level of molecular biology than any other plant process.
Table of Contents
- Kurt Hostettmann: Recent advances in methodology for the isolation and purification of plant phenolics
- C.F. Van Sumere & K. Vande Casteele: Reversed Phase-HPLC analysis of flavonoids and the biochemical identification of cultivars of evergreen Azalea
- H. Geiger: The identification of phenolic compounds by colour reactions
- Gerhard Schilling: Recent advances in NMR-spectroscopy of plant phenolics
- H.-R. Shulten: Recent advances in soft ionization mass spectrometry and its applications to plant phenolics
- M.J.C. Rhodes: The physiological significance of plant phenolic compounds
- Geza Hrazdina & George J. Wagner: Compartmentation of plant phenolic compounds: sites of synthesis and accumulation
- Alain M. Boudet, Annick Graziana & Raoul Ranjeva: Recent advances in the regulation of the prearomatic pathway
- B. Monties: Recent advances on lignin inhomogeneity
- H. Grisebach: Topics in flavonoid biosynthesis
- Dervilla M.X. Donnelly: Neoflavanoids
- David G. Roux & Daneel Ferreira: Rationalization of divergent condensation sequences in flavanoid oligomerization
- Edwin Haslam: New polyphenols for old Tannins
- Stewart A. Brown: Recent advances in the biosynthesis of coumarins
- G.H.N. Towers & E. Yamamoto: Interactions of cinnamic acid and its derivatives with light
- R.H. Thomson: Recent advances in the chemistry and biochemistry of quinones
- W. Barz, J. K stner, K.-M. Weltring & D. Strack: Recent advances in the metabolism and degradation of phenolic compounds in plants and animals
- V.S. Butt: Oxygenation and oxidation in the metabolism of aromatic compounds
- John Friend: Phenolic substances and plant disease
- Jeffrey B. Harborne: Phenolics and plant defence
- H. Wagner: New plant phenolics of pharmaceutical interest
- W.S. Pierpoint: Phenolics in food and feedstuffs: the pleasures and perils of vegetarianism
- Tony Swain: Plant phenolics: past and future.
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