Title:
Introduction to ecological biochemistry / J.B. Harborne.
Author:
Harborne, J. B. (Jeffrey B.)
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Plant and its biochemical adaptation to the environment -- Biochemistry of plant pollination -- Plant toxins and their effects on animals -- Hormonal interactions between plants and animals -- Insect feeding preferences -- Feeding preferences of vertebrates, including man -- Co-evolutionary arms race: plant defence and animal response -- Animal pheromones and defence substances -- Biochemical interactions between higher plants -- Higher plant-lower plant interactions: phytoalexins and phytotoxins.
Publisher:
Academic Press,
Publication Place:
London ; San Diego :
ISBN:
0123246857
0123246865 (pbk.)
Subject:
Biochimie.
Chimie âecologique.
Biochemistry.
Ecology.
Environmental chemistry.
Quâimica biolâogica.
Biochemistry
Edition:
4th ed.
Contents:
Plant and its biochemical adaptation to the environment -- Biochemistry of plant pollination -- Plant toxins and their effects on animals -- Hormonal interactions between plants and animals -- Insect feeding preferences -- Feeding preferences of vertebrates, including man -- Co-evolutionary arms race: plant defence and animal response -- Animal pheromones and defence substances -- Biochemical interactions between higher plants -- Higher plant-lower plant interactions: phytoalexins and phytotoxins.
Physical Description:
xiv, 318 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
c1993.
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