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This reference work provides a comprehensive overview of bioactive compounds investigated in bryophytes and pteridophytes and explores their nutritional, biological, pharmacological and ecological effects. Bryophytes are cosmopolitan lower plants that are rich in phytochemicals including fatty acids, tocopherols, phenolics, terpenoids. Additionally, these plants contain bibenzyls, bis-benzyls, and polyketides which have been demonstrated to have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and cytotoxic activities. Pteridophytes are another group of lower vascular plants which were reported to have useful secondary compounds such as flavonoids, steroids, phenolics, terpenoids, and these plants impart medicinal values including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and anti-HIV activities.This book contains comprehensive contributions compiled by expert scientists and researchers in this field.The book offers a useful resource for plant biotechnologists, plant biologists, pharmacologists, pharmacists, food technologists, nutritionists, research investigators of the healthcare industry, academia, faculty, and students of biology and biomedical sciences. It also provides a strategic framework for further research and development activities of bryophytes and pteridophytes of the world.
Bryophytes
Bioactive Compounds from Bryophytes
Therapeutic Potential of Bryophytes and Its Future Perspective
Volatile Compounds and Oils from Mosses and Liverworts
Anticancerous Compounds from Bryophytes: Recent Advances with Special Emphasis on Bis(bi)benzyls
Immunomodulatory Potential of Hedwigia ciliata and Hypnum cupressiforme
Extracts from the Liverwort Bazzania trilobata with Potential Dermo-cosmetic Properties
Bryophytes as an Accumulator of Toxic Elements from the Environment: Recent Advances
Pteridophytes
Bioactive Compounds of Pteridophytes
Anticancer Properties of Pteridophytes and Derived Compounds: Pharmacological Perspectives and Medicinal Use
On the Bioactive Potential of Ferns: An Overview
Fern Fatty Acids: From Diversity to Dietary Value
Ferns and Lycophytes with Insecticidal Activity: An Overview
Phytochemicals from the Pteridaceae Family and Their Prospects as Future Drugs
Phytochemicals and Their Bioactivity from Plants of Dryopteridaceae Family
Bioactive Compounds and Biological Activities of Dipteris wallichii
Bioactive Compounds and Biological Activities of Cyathea Species
Phytochemicals of Adiantum capillus-veneris
Phytochemicals and Biological Activities of Stenochlaena palustris
Allelochemicals from Pteridium arachnoideum
Bioactive Compounds in Polypodium vulgare L. (Polypodiaceae)
Phytochemicals and Biological Activities of Asplenium ceterach
Applications of Bryophytes and Pteridophytes in the Fields of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Allied Fields
Bryophytes and the Nanotechnology: Recent Developments and Perspectives
Biotechnology Investigations in Bryophytes and Pteridophytes
Ecometabolomics Studies of Bryophytes
Physiological Ecology of Ferns
Extracts and Composites of Equisetum for Bone Regeneration
Pteridophytes as Ecological Indicators in Legislation: A Case Study in Southern Brazil