Natural products of Silk Road plants / edited by Raymond Cooper and Jeffrey John Deakin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, Raymond, editor.

Deakin, Jeffrey John, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Natural products chemistry of global plants

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phytochemicals--History.

Phytochemicals.

Botanical chemistry--History.

Botanical chemistry.

Ethnobotany--History.

Ethnobotany.

Medicinal plants--History.

Medicinal plants.

Natural products--History.

Natural products.

Plants--Social aspects--History--To 1500.

Plants.

Plants--Social aspects.

History.

Silk Road--History.

Silk Road.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Raymond Cooper is a visiting professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He earned his PhD in organic chemistry from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. His dissertation researched the ancient wild wheats of the Middle East, examining their germinating properties and chemical profiles. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, New York, he spent 15 years in drug discovery research of plant and microbial natural products in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He then moved to the nutraceutical and dietary supplements industry to develop botanicals from traditional Chinese medicine including ginkgo, cordyceps, red yeast rice, green tea and many other botanical medicines. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, an honorary visiting professor at the College of Pharmacy, University of London, and a member of the American Pharmacognosy Society. He has published over 120 research papers, edited five books and coauthored the book Natural Products Chemistry: Sources, Separations and Structures. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and received the American Society of Pharmacognosy 2014 Varro Tyler Award for Contributions to Botanical Research. Jeffrey Deakin earned a first class honors degree in chemistry from the University of London followed by a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Cambridge. He has headed the chemistry and physics departments in grammar and comprehensive schools in the United Kingdom. He was a founding member and non-executive director of a multi-academy educational trust, formally approved by the Department for Education in the UK, which aims to secure and sustain school improvement by providing leadership and support, by working with governing bodies to strengthen their leadership and strategic delivery and through contracted work with school leaders and their teams. At the same time he was also the chairman of the governing body of one of the largest academies in the secondary sector of education within the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom and is also a member of the Curriculum and Assessment Working Group at the Royal Society of Chemistry which is reviewing the national curriculum in chemistry in each of the four home nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Contents:

Section II Eastern Asia

Mongolia

1 Medicinal Plants of Mongolia p. 7 / Narantuya Samdan and Odonchimeg Batsukh

China

2 Medicinal Plants of China Focusing on Tibet and Surrounding Regions p. 49 / Jiangqun Jin and Chunlin Long and Edward J. Kennelly

Section III Central and Southern Asia

India

3 Medicinal Plants of the Trans-Himalaya p. 73 / Ajay Sharma and Garima Bhardwaj and Pushpender Bhardwaj and Damanjit Singh Cannoo

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

4 Medicinal Plants of Central Asia p. 105 / Farukh S. Sharopov and William N. Setzer

5 Melons of Central Asia p. 133 / Ravza F. Mavlyanova and Sasha W. Eisenman and David E. Zaurov

6 Resources along the Silk Road in Central Asia: Lagochilus inebrians Bunge (Turkestan Mint) and Medicago saliva L. (Alfalfa) p. 153 / Oimahmad Rahmonov and David E. Zaurov and Buston S. Islamov and Sasha W. Eisenman

Section IV Western Asia and the Middle East

Iran

7 An Overview of Important Endemic Plants and Their Products in Iran p. 171 / Reza E. Owfi

8 Crocus sativus and the Prized Commodity, Saffron p. 201 / Jeffrey John Deakin and Raymond Cooper

Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan

9 Natural Plant Dyes of Oriental Carpets p. 211 / Jeffrey John Deakin

Iraq and Syria

10 Wheat and Rice - Ancient and Modern Cereals p. 219 / Raymond Cooper and Jeffrey John Deakin

Georgia

11 Ethnobotany of the Silk Road - Georgia, the Cradle of Wine p. 229 / Rainer W. Bussmann and Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana and Shalva Sikhandidze and Zaal Kikvidze and David Kikodze and David Tchelidze and Ketevan Batsatsashvili

Turkey

12 Plants Endemic to Turkey Including the Genus Arnebia p. 255 / Ufuk Koca Çaliskan and Ceylon Dönmez

Section V Maritime Routes

Sri Lanka

13 Maritime Routes through Sri Lanka: Medicinal Plants and Spices p. 271 / Viduranga Y. Waisundara.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Natural products of Silk Road plants

ISBN:

9780429061547

0429061544

9780429591877

042959187X

9780429587993

0429587996

9780429589935

042958993X

Publisher Number:

99986196476

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