Book ID: 88405
Zhang, Lixing and Arnold L. Demain (eds.)
Natural Products. Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine. 2005. XIV, 382 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Deals with the historical aspects of natural products and theintegration of approaches to their discovery, microbial diversity,specific groups of products (Chinese herbal drugs, antitumour drugsfrom microbes and plants, terpinoids and arsenic compounds), specificsources (the sea, rainforest endophytes, and Ecuadorian biodiversity)and methodology (HPCL profiling, combinatorial biosynthesis, genomics,bioinformatics and strain improvement by modern genetic manipulations).