| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Plant toxins/ edited by Celia Regina Carlini, Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun. |
| other author: |
Carlini, Celia Regina. |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :Springer Netherlands : : 2017., |
| Description: |
xx, 473 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Biotechnological Potential of Ribosome Inactivating Proteins (RIPs) -- Cyanotoxins Cyclotides: Plant Defense Toxins -- Entomotoxic Plant Proteins: Molecules to Develop Genetically Modified Plants Potentially Resistant to Insect-Pests -- General Mechanisms of Plant Defense -- Locoweeds and Swainsonine -- Moonlighting Toxins: Ureases and Beyond -- Oleander Poisoning -- Phycotoxins Other Than Cyanotoxins -- Plant AB Toxins with Lectin Domains -- Plant Alkaloids: Main Features, Toxicity, and Mechanisms of Action -- Plant and Fungal Hallucinogens as Toxic and Therapeutic Agents -- Plant Compounds with Antiophidic Activities, Their Discovery History, and Current and Proposed Applications -- Plant Cyanogenic Glycosides -- Plant Toxins as Sources of Drugs -- Plants Toxic to Farm and Companion Animals -- Proteinaceous Plant Toxins with Antimicrobial and Antitumor Activities Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins: An Overview -- Suicidal Plant Poisoning -- The Role of Metal-Based Defenses in Plants -- Toxic but Exploitable Actions of Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins -- Toxic Chemicals from Invasive Alien Plants -- Toxic Nonprotein Amino Acids. |
| Contained By: |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject: |
Plant toxins. - |
| Online resource: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6464-4 |
| ISBN: |
9789400764644 |