Main description:

Ranunculales Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Chemodiversity and Pharmacotherapy comprehensively covers this order of flowering plants, detailing the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plants families and genera and their relevance to drug efficacy. The book carries out an exhaustive survey of the literature in order to characterize global trends in the application of flexible technologies. The interrelationship between Chinese species, and between Chinese and non-Chinese species, is inferred through molecular phylogeny and based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequencing. The book discusses the conflict between chemotaxonomy and molecular phylogeny in the context of drug discovery and development.

Users will find invaluable and holistic coverage on the study of Ranunculales that will make this the go-to pharmaceutical resource.

Contents:

1. Genomics and Evolution in Traditional Medicinal Plants: Road to a Healthier Life
2. Mining chemodiversity from biodiversity: pharmacophylogeny of medicinal plants of Ranunculaceae
3. Mining chemodiversity from biodiversity: pharmacophylogeny of Ranunculales medicinal plants (except Ranunculaceae)
4. Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic diversity of Ranunculaceae medicinal compounds
5. Drug metabolism and disposition diversity of Ranunculales phytometabolites: a systems perspective
6. Anticancer Chemodiversity of Ranunculaceae Medicinal Plants: Molecular Mechanisms and Functions
7. Biodiversity, chemodiversity and pharmacotherapy of Thalictrum medicinal plants
8. Biodiversity, chemodiversity and pharmacotherapy of Anemone medicinal plants
9. Biodiversity, chemodiversity and pharmacotherapy of Ranunculus medicinal plants