Plants as a source of natural antioxidants [electronic resource] Edited by N. K. Dubey.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: CABI BooksPublisher: Wallingford UK CABI 2015Edition: 1Description: 307ppContent type:- text
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- chemical constituents of plants
- drug plants
- reactive oxygen species
- medicinal herbs
- oil crops
- radical scavenging properties
- plant composition
- mycorrhizas
- endophytes
- chemical composition
- essential oil crops
- oil plants
- mycorrhizal fungi
- free radicals
- anti-oxidant properties
- medicinal plants
- officinal plants
- antioxidant properties
- plants
- essential oil plants
- eukaryotes
A comprehensive overview of both traditional and current knowledge on the health effects of plant based antioxidants, this book reviews medicinal and aromatic plants from around the world. It covers the different sources of antioxidants including essential oils, algae and marine microorganisms, as well as the role of abiotic and biotic stresses, endophytes, transgenic approaches in scavenging ROS and antioxidant plants used in different therapeutic systems.
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