TY - BOOK ID - 14306910 TI - Chemical constituents of bryophytes : bio- and chemical diversity, biological activity, and chemosystematics AU - Asakawa, Yoshinori. AU - Ludwiczuk, Agnieszka. AU - Nagashima, Fumihiro. PY - 2013 SN - 3709110831 370911084X 1283912597 PB - Vienna : Springer-Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Bryophytes. KW - Biochemistry KW - Chemistry KW - Human Anatomy & Physiology KW - Botany KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Animal Biochemistry KW - Fungi & Algae KW - Botany. KW - Botanical science KW - Phytobiology KW - Phytography KW - Phytology KW - Plant biology KW - Plant science KW - Bryophyta KW - Bryophyte flora KW - Bryophyte vegetation KW - Chemistry. KW - Pharmacy. KW - Organic chemistry. KW - Medical biochemistry. KW - Plant biochemistry. KW - Organic Chemistry. KW - Plant Biochemistry. KW - Medical Biochemistry. KW - Archegoniatae KW - Cryptogams KW - Bryology KW - Biology KW - Natural history KW - Plants KW - Chemistry, Organic. KW - Biochemistry. KW - Biological chemistry KW - Chemical composition of organisms KW - Organisms KW - Physiological chemistry KW - Medical sciences KW - Medicine KW - Drugs KW - Materia medica KW - Pharmacology KW - Organic chemistry KW - Composition KW - Phytochemistry KW - Plant biochemistry KW - Plant chemistry KW - Phytochemicals KW - Plant biochemical genetics KW - Medical biochemistry KW - Pathobiochemistry KW - Pathological biochemistry KW - Pathology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14306910 AB - For some 50 years, Professor Asakawa and his group have focused their research on the chemical constituents of bryophytes and have found that these plants contain large numbers of secondary metabolites, such as terpenoids, acetogenins, and aromatic compounds representative of many new skeletons, which exhibit interesting biological activities. Individual terpenoids, when found as constituents of both a bryophyte and a higher plant, tend to occur in different enantiomeric forms. Professor Asakawa has covered the literature on bryophytes in two earlier volumes of Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, namely, Volumes 42 (1982) and 65 (1995). Since the publication of the latter volume, a great deal of new information has appeared on bryophytes. One example is that known sex pheromones of algae have been discovered in two liverworts, indicating that some members of the latter taxonomic group might originate from brown algae. From information provided in this volume, it is suggested that two orders of the Marchantiophyta should be combined. . ER -