Phytochemical Potential of Tropical Plants

Abstract

"Proceedings of an international symposium of the second joint meeting of the Phytochemical Societies of Europe and North America, as well as the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America ... held August 8-12, 1992, in Miami Beach, Florida"--Title page verso. 1. Tropical Plants as Sources of Antiprotozal Agents -- 2. Chemical Studies and Biological Aspects of Some Mexican Plants Used in Traditional Medicine -- 3. Chemical and Biological Extractives of Lauraceae Species in Costa Rican Tropical Forests -- 4. Zoopharmocognosy: The Use of Medicinal Plants by Animals -- 5. Insecticides in Tropical Plants with Non-Neurotoxic Modes of Action -- 6. Insect Control Agents from Tropical Plants -- 7. Phytochemistry and Biological Activity of Metabolites from Tropical Meliaceae -- 8. Recent Advances in the Acetogenins of Annonaceae -- 9. Phytochemical Diversity in the Order Rutales -- 10. Plant Cell Cultures and Synthetic Chemistry -- Routes to Clinically Important Compounds -- 11. Utility of the Phytochemeco Database.