Specialized Plant Metabolites: Diversity and Biosynthesis

Ecological Biochemistry: Environmental and Interspecies Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 14-37

  Tissier, Alain ^a   Ziegler, Jörg ^a   Vogt, Thomas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Flavonoids; Glucosinolates; Phenylpropanoids; Secondary metabolites; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

ALKALOIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOSYNTHESIS; ECOLOGY; FLAVONOIDS; LIPIDS;

CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDES; ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL; GLUCOSINOLATES; PHENYLPROPANOIDS; PLANT SECONDARY METABOLITES; SECONDARY METABOLITES; TERPENOIDS;

METABOLITES;

EID: 84949008398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527686063.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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