Selected topics in the chemistry of natural products / edited by Raphael Ikan

Includes bibliographical references and index

-- The origin and the nature of natural products -- Plant-derived natural products in drug discovery and development: an overview -- Plant and brain cannabinoids: the chemistry of major new players in physiology -- Natural products as biomarker tracers in environmental and geological processes -- Toxins of marine invertebrates and microorganisms -- Enantiomeric distribution of odorous oxygenated monoterpenes in aromatic plants -- Recent trends of some natural sweet substances from plants -- Natural products for pest management -- Natural products in mycelial microorganisms: impact of morphology -- Recent advances in the chemistry of insect pheromones -- Nature derived antibiotics -- Natural products and related compounds of realized and potential use in treating neurodegenerative disease -- Phytotoxic compounds with calmodulin inhibitor properties from selected Mexican fungi and plants -- Potential anticancer natural products from plant-associated fungi -- Plant fungal endophytes: interactions, metabolites and biosyntheses