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Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants.
An essential reference for those interested in the medicinal and botanical potential of rainforests.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collingwood :
CSIRO Publishing,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Cultural sensitivity warning
- Introduction
- 1 Tropical rainforests: tales of plunder and protection
- A PRECIOUS RESOURCE
- MEDICINAL PLANTS: A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY
- AUSTRALIA'S TROPICAL NORTH: PIONEER VISIONS
- THE TIMBER TRADE
- CEDAR AS MEDICINE
- THE CONTENTIOUS ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
- RAINFOREST REVEGETATION: PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE
- RAINFOREST OAKS: RARE AND PRIMITIVE PROTEACEAE
- AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL RAINFOREST PROTEACEAE
- EXTINCTION IN THE TROPICS
- CONSERVING RAINFOREST BIODIVERSITY
- A FUTURE FOR OUR LAND?
- REFERENCES
- 2 Primeval links to the modern world
- THE AGE OF THE PTERIDOPHYTES
- ANCIENT LYCOPODS: RARE TASSEL FERNS (HUPERZIA AND PHLEGMARIURUS)
- AQUATICS: THE EARLIEST FLOWERS OF THE WATERWAYS
- WATERLILIES AS FOOD
- MEDICINAL WATERLILIES: AN EXTENSIVE REPERTOIRE
- REFERENCES
- 3 Timeless treasures: Gondwana and the rainforest refuge
- ANCESTRAL GONDWANAN CONTINENTAL LINKS: THE SOUTHERN BEECHES
- ANCIENT ANGIOSPERMS
- AN EVOLVING TIME CAPSULE
- SPECIAL PLACES: TROPICAL CLOUD FORESTS
- ANGIOSPERMS OF ANTIQUITY
- AUSTROBAILEYA: A RAINFOREST SPECIALIST
- AN UNUSUAL NATIVE 'BITTER VINE'
- IDIOSPERMUM IDIOSYNCRASIES
- REFERENCES
- 4 Ancient gymnosperms
- GYMNOSPERM ODDITIES
- CYCADS: A 'LIVING FOSSIL' LINEAGE
- ANCIENT ARAUCARIANS
- RESIN DITERPENES
- ANCIENT ENDOPHYTES AS ANTICANCER DRUG RESOURCES
- REFERENCES
- 5 Pines and podocarps: environmental refugees
- PODOCARPS: SURVIVAL AND STRATEGIC ADAPTATION
- GONDWANAN SURVIVORS
- NATIVE PODOCARPS
- PODOCARPS AS TRADITIONAL REMEDIES
- NATIVE CYPRESS
- CYPRESS RESINS AND OILS
- THE MAGIC OF 'MEDICINAL SMOKE'
- CALLITRIS: PESTICIDE AND ANTI-TUMOUR STUDIES
- THE SEA HEARSE: AN ANTICANCER HERB?
- REFERENCES
- 6 Magnoliids: survivors from prehistory
- MAGNOLIALES: VISIONS OF SPLENDOUR
- MEDICINAL MAGNOLIA
- LIRIODENDRON TULIP TREES: ANCIENT SURVIVORS FROM AMERICA AND CHINA
- PRIMEVAL POLLINATORS
- EUPOMATIA: THE NATIVE GUAVA
- PIGEONBERRY ASH: A DIVINATORY TROPICAL TREE
- REFERENCES
- 7 Myristica: nutmeg and mace
- AUSTRALIA'S NATIVE NUTMEGS
- A TROPICAL 'CAPE NUTMEG' (HORSFIELDIA AUSTRALIANA)
- THE NUTMEG SPICE
- POTENT SPICE CHEMICALS
- SAFROLE: TOXICOLOGICAL CONCERNS
- MEDICINAL MYRISTICA
- A MISTAKEN HALLUCINOGEN?
- REFERENCES
- 8 Antipodean phytochemicals
- EARLY PHYTOCHEMICAL ENTERPRISES
- THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST: VENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN
- BOTANICAL LINKS WITH NEW GUINEA
- ELLIPTICINE AND THE OCHROSIA PLUM
- LOST OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW DIRECTIONS
- BUILDING ON THE PAST
- BLUSHWOOD: AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY
- REFERENCES
- 9 Phytochemistry of the laurels
- SOUTHERN SASSAFRAS
- RAINFOREST MONIMIACEAE
- LAURACEAE: ALKALOIDS AND ANTI-TUMOUR TESTING
- NATIVE CAMPHOR
- CINNAMON: RESURRECTION OF AN ANCIENT HERB
- LITSEA AND NEOLITSEA