Medicinal plants : chemistry, biology and omics / [electronic resource] authored by Da Cheng Hao, Xiao-Jie Gu, Pei Gen Xiao. Hao, Da Cheng, author. Gu, Xiao-Jie, author. Xiao, Peigen, author. Medicinal plants. Botany, Medical. QK99.A1 581.634 Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 7, 2015). Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Biology and Omics reviews the phytochemistry, chemotaxonomy, molecular biology, and phylogeny of selected medicinal plant tribes and genera, and their relevance to drug efficacy. Medicinal plants provide a myriad of pharmaceutically active components, which have been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine and worldwide for thousands of years. Increasing interest in plant-based medicinal resources has led to additional discoveries of many novel compounds, in various angiosperm and gymnosperm species, and investigations on their chemotaxonomy, molecular ph. 2015 Text 1 online resource : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081000854 eng Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine ; no. 73 Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine ; no. 73. Medicinal Plants : Chemistry, Biology and Omics. Medicinal Plants : Chemistry, Biology and Omics.