Toxic Plants: Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Symposium on Toxic Plants, June 11-15, 1977, the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

by A. Douglas Kinghorn (Editor)

Overview

The dependency of the human race on plants as renewable sources of many foodstuffs, drugs, textiles, fuel, and building materials in generally acknowledged. However, the harmful effects produced by certain plant constituents, which result in an increasing incidence of poisoning cases in the United States each year, are not so widely appreciated. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive treatise on all substances from plants that are lethal or otherwise injurious to humans or livestock. Instead, owing to tremendous recent advances in the understanding of the chemical nature of their toxic principles, it reviews selected toxic plants which have been hitherto inadequately documented in previous texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231046862
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/22/1979
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
The Problems of Poisonous Plants, by John M. Kingsbury
Toxic Mushrooms, by George M. Hatfield
Toxins and Teratogens of the Solanaceae and Liliaceae, by Richard F. Keeler
Pokeweed and Other Lymphocyte Mitogens, by Alexander McPherson
Literature Review and Clinical Management of Household Ornamental Plants Potentially Toxic to Humans, by Ara Der Marderosian and Frank C. Roia Jr.
Cocarcinogenic Irritant Euphorbiaceae, by A. Douglas Kinghorn
The Poisonous Anacardiaceae, by Harold Baer
Contact Hypersensitivity and Photodermatitis Evoked by Compositae, by G.H. Neil Towers
Index