2000 Years of Natural Products Research; Past, Present and Future

Congress Proceedings
2000 Years of Natural Products Research - Past, Present and Future

In July 1999, the congress "2000 Years of Natural Products Research Past, Present and Future" was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In this fifth joint meeting of international societies of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry (American Society of Pharmacognosy, ASP, Association Française pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie, AFERP, Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung, GA & Phytochemical Society of Europe, PSE), a large number of participants from all over the world discussed the latest achievements in the field of natural products research.

Lectures held by the invited speakers have now been bundled in a separate publication.

The articles in this book deal with the state of the art in natural products research, a reflection upon what has been achieved thus far and an outlook into the future. A wide variety of the aspects involved in natural products research is treated, e.g., traditional medicine, biodiversity, chemotaxonomy, industrial applications, biosynthetical pathways, analytical and separation techniques, high-throughput screening, the biological function and use by man of secondary metabolites, etc., etc. For an overview, see the table below.

ISBN 90-805866-1-7

Published by Phytoconsult, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2000.

Total of 256 pages, hard cover. The price (NLG 130.-, approx. U$ 55.-) includes packing & postage.

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CONTENTS

E. Dagne	New biologically active compounds from African plants.
L. Demain	Idiolites from microorganisms: a briljant past, a bright future.
H. Guinaudeau	Alkaloids. Past and present.
G. Harnischfeger	Botanical illustrations as information carriers in medicinal herbals: Oscillations between ornamental decoration and analytical necessity.
D. Joulain	Natural products in perfumery and cosmetics.
D. G. I. Kingston	Recent advances in the chemistry of taxol.
D. F. Klessig et al.	Salicylic acid- and nitric oxide-mediated signaling in plant-microorganism interactions.
J. Lapa et al.	Medicinal plant research in Latin America.
F. A. Macías et al.	Plant biocommunicators: application of allelopathic studies.
J. Mol	Anthocyanin modification in ornamental plants.
P. W. Paré	Biological activity and future directions for flavonoids.
V. Reutrakul et al.	Bioactive natural products from tropical forests.
J. Vlietinck	The future of phytochemistry in the new millennium.
H. Yamada	Structure and function of bioactive polysaccharides from medicinal plants - present and future.

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