Natural products that have both plant growth regulatory properties and pharmaceutical properties are examined in this book. This is the first and most up-to-date text linking agrochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry in an easy to read presentation for practitioners in both fields.

Due to the intense and widespread attention being given to the undesirable side-effects of commercial herbicide products such as residual contamination, resistance, ecosystem impairments, and waste generation, the discovery of new, natural herbicides that are biologically safe will prove to be significant and profitable.

Featuring over 200 tables, Biologically Active Natural Products: Agrochemicals is very useful to those in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as those in biochemistry, plant pathology, and natural products study and development.

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Presents and examines agrochemical- and pharmaceutical- structured connections and considerations

Presents natural product herbicide templates

Presents and examines growth inhibitors from aquatic plants

Presents and examines biochemicals for agriculture from microorgainisms

Presents and examines compounds that inhibit aflatoxin production in stored agricultural products

Content - 1. Agrochemicals and Pharmaceuticals: The Connection, 2. Terpenoids with Potential Use as Natural Herbicide Templates, 3. Allelopathy of Velvetbean: Determination and Identification of L-DOPA as a Candidate of Allelopathic Substances, 4. Phytochemical Inhibitors from the Numphaeceae: Nymphaea odorata and Nuphar lutea, 5. Development of an Allelopathic Compound from Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) as a Natural Product Herbicide, 6. Triterpenoids and Other Potentially Active Compounds from Wheat Straw: Isolation, Identification, and Synthesis, 7. Glucosinolates as Natural Pesticides, 8. Coronatine: Chemistry and Biological Activities, 9. Biochemical Interactions of the Microbial Phytotoxin Phosphinothricin and Analogs with Plants and Microbes, 10. Sequestration of Phytotoxins by Plants: Implications for Biosynthetic Production, 11. Potent Mosquito Repellents from the Leaves of Eucalyptus and Vitex Plants, 12. Arthropod Semiochemicals as Multifunctional Natural Products, 13. Tobacco as a Biochemical Resource Past, Present, and Future, 14. Natural Products Containing Phenylalanine as Potential Bioherbicides, 15. Spectrum of Activity of Antifungal Natural Products and Their Analogs, 16. Aflastatins: New Streptomyces Metabolites that Inhibit Alatoxin Biosynthesis, 17. Practical Natural Solutions for Plant Disease Control, 18. Cotton Pest Resistance: The Role of Pigment Gland Constituents, 19. Phytochemical Modification of Taste: An Insect Model, 20. Exploring the Potential of Biologically Active Compounds from Plants and Fungi, 21. Recent Advances in Saponins Used in Foods, Agriculture, and Medicine, 22. Phytochemicals Implications for Long-Duration Space Missions, Index