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Committee on Food Protection, N.R.C.. 1973. Toxicants Occurring Naturally in Foods. (2nd ed.), Natl. Acad. Sci., Washington, D.C. The toxicants are grouped primarily on a chemical basis.
Constable, F. and I. K. Vasil (eds.). 1987. Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Higher Plants. Vol. 4. Cell Culture in Phytochemistry. Academic Press, Orlando, FL. Several chapters deal with the production of secondary compounds in tissue cultures.
Constabel, F. and I. K. Vasil (eds.). 1988. Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants. Vol. 5. Phytochemicals in Plant Cell Cultures. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA.
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Duke, J. A. 1992. CRC Handbook of Biologically Active Phytochemicals and their Activities. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. A listing of about 3,000 biologically active plant chemicals and their activities and dosages.
Duke, J. A. 1992. Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents of GRAS Herbs and Other Economic Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Duke, J. A. 1994. Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
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Gausman, H. W. (ed.) 1991. Plant Biochemical Regulators. Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY.
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Hocking, G. M. 1997. A Dictionary of Natural Products: Terms in the Field of Pharmacognosy Relating to Natural Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Materials and the Plants, Animals, and Minerals from Which They are Derived. (2nd ed.), Plexus Pub., Medford, NJ.
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Johnston, J. F. W. and A. H. Church. 1889. Chemistry of Common Life. Appleton and Co., NY. The chemistry of life as it once was viewed.
Johnson, T. 1998. CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference. CRC Press, boca Raton, FL.
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Lea, P. J. 1990 Methods in Plant Biochemistry. Vol. 9. Enzymes of Secondary Metabolism. Academic Press, London.
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Leung, A. Y., 1980. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs and Cosmetics. John Wiley and Sons, Somerset, NJ.
Linskins, H. F. and J. F. Jackson (eds.) 1985- Modern Methods in Plant Analysis. N.S. Springer-Verlag, Berlin . A good series dealing with specialized topics.
Linskins, H. F. and J. F. Jackson. 1987. High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Plant Sciences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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Mann, J. 1987. Secondary Metabolism. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
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Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs and Biologicals. 11th edn., Merck and Co., Rahway, NJ A great source of information on natural products.
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Phillips, O. 1991. The ethnobotany and economic botany of tropical vines. pp. 427-475 in The Biology of Vines. F. E. Putz and H. A. Mooney (eds.), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
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Sanders, J. 1993. Hedgemaids and Fairy Candles. Ragged Mountain Press-McGraw-Hill, NY. An interesting mix of folklore and science.
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*Taiz, L. and E. Zeiger. 1998. Plant Physiology, 2nd edn. Sinauer Associates Inc. Publ. Co., Sunderland, MA. pp. 347-376. survey the major classes of secondary compounds.
Taylor, C. B. 1998. Factories of the future? Metabolic engineering in plant cells. Plant Cell 10: 641-644 (1998).
Teranishi, R., R. G. Buttery and H. Sugisawa (eds.) 1993. Bioactive Volatiles from Plants. Am. Chemical Soc., Washington, D.C.
Timmermann, B. N., C. Steelink and F. A. Loewus. 1984. Phytochemical Adaptations to Stress. Plenum Press, NY. Includes the role of secondary compounds in pest resistance as well as environmental stress.
Torssell, K. B. G. 1984. Natural Product Chemistry: A Mechanistic and Biosynthetic Approach to Secondary Metabolism. J. Wiley and Sons, Somerset, NJ.
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**Suggested reading. Also on reserve.
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