Recent Advances in Redox Active Plant and Microbial Products From Basic Chemistry to Widespread Applications in Medicine and Agriculture /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jacob, Claus (Editor), Kirsch, Gilbert (Editor), Slusarenko, Alan (Editor), Winyard, Paul G. (Editor), Burkholz, Torsten (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Plant biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Plant Biochemistry.

Nature endows us with a treasure chest of Green Gold full of amazing substances we can use as part of our daily life. Many of these compounds are ‘redox-active’, and hence able to trigger or interfere with numerous biological processes which occur in our own body, in animals, bacteria, fungi and pla...