This volume presents frontier reviews on recent developments on bioactive natural products in cutting-edge areas by eminent experts in their respective fields. Fourteen reviews treat diverse and different topics in natural products chemistry - basic ones, medicinally oriented ones, agro-oriented ones and ecologically oriented ones. It is an important addition to this important series on Natural Products Chemistry, generally acknowledged to be the leading series on this topic.Antitumor agent 248. Chemistry and antitumor activity of tylophorine-related alkaloids LINYI WEI, ARNOLD BROSSI, SUSAN L. MORRIS-NATSCHKE, KENNETH F. BASTOW AND KUO-HSIUNG LEE
Antitumor and antimetastatic actions of various natural products YOSHIYUKI KIMURA
Natural stilbenes and analogues as ntineoplastic agents FULVIA ORSINI AND GUIDO SELLO
Discoveries of the diels-alderases AKITAMI ICHIHARA
Lipids of membranes: Chemistry, biological role and applications as drug carriers SOPHIA HATZIANTONIOY AND COSTAS DEMETZOS
Metabolism of plant hormones cytokinins and their function in signaling, cell differentiation and plant development PETR GALUSZKA, LUK?S SP?CHAL, DAVID KOPECN?, PETR TARKOWSKI, JITKA FR?BORTOVA, MAREK SEBELA AND IVO FR?BORT
(+)-Biotin: A challenge for industrially viable total synthesis of natural products MASAHIKO SEKI
Biotechnology for the production of plant natural products RAFAEL ZARATE, NABIL EL JABER-VAZDEKIS, ELENA CEQUIER-S?NCHEZ, F?TIMA GUT?ERREZ-NICOL?S AND ?NGEL G. RAVELO
Roles of insect and mammal pheromones: Vomeronasal receptors DANIEL GARC?A VEL?ZQUEZ, JOS? J. MARRERO TELLADO AND ANGEL G. RAVELO
Stilbenoids: Chemistry and bioactivities KAI XIAO, HONG-JUN ZHANG, LI-JIAl3-