Natural Products of Silk Road Plants

著者名：Cooper, Raymond (EDT)/Deakin, Jeffrey John (EDT)

CRC Press（2020/08/31発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367184339
• eISBN：9780429589935

Description

The Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes linking China with the rest of the Eurasian continent by land and sea, fostered transformation of the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of diverse peoples. In Natural Products of Silk Road Plants there is a treasury of plants, many indigenous to countries along the trading routes of the Silk Road, that yielded medicines, cereals, spices, beverages, dyes, and euphoric and exotic compounds previously unknown to the rest of the world.

This entry in the Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants series has been prepared for university students of chemistry and ethnobotany and for those wishing to broaden their knowledge. It opens a window on a vast region of Asia not well described for its flora and provides new and fresh insights on:

• Significant plants, some endangered
• Traditional and modern applications of extracts
• The biochemical and pharmacological properties of extracts
• Contains over 150 full colour figures

The significance of the Silk Road is being revived today through immense investment by China and other eastern countries in major schemes of transport infrastructure.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About the Editors

List of Contributors

AIMS AND PURPOSE

SECTION I   INTRODUCTION

            The History and Geography of the Silk Road

SECTION II   EASTERN ASIA

Mongolia

                        Ch 1. Medicinal Plants of Mongolia

                                                Narantuya Samdan and Batsukh Odonchimeg 

 Western China

                        Ch 2. Medicinal Plants of Tibet and the Surrounding Region

                                                Jiangqun Q Jin, Edward J Kennelly and Chunlin L Long         

SECTION III   CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA

India

            Ch 3. Medicinal Plants of the Trans-Himalayas 

                                    Ajay Sharma, Pushpender Bhardwaj, Garima Bhardwaj

                                    and Damanjit Singh Cannoo

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan   

           Ch 4. Medicinal Plants of Central Asia

                              William Setzer and Farukh Sharopov       

            Ch 5. Melons of Central Asia

                              Ravza Mavlyanova, Sasha Eisenman and David Zaurov

            Ch 6. Resources along the Silk Road in Central Asia: Lagochilus inebrians Bunge (Turkestan mint) and Medicago sativa L. (alfalfa)

                               Oimahmad Rahmonov, David E. Zaurov, Buston S. Islamov, and Sasha W. Eisenman

 

SECTION IV   WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Iran

                        Ch 7. An overview of important Endemic Plants and their Products in Iran  

                                                Reza Owfi

                        Ch 8. Crocus Sativus and the Prized Commodity, Saffron

                                                Raymond Cooper and Jeffrey Deakin

                        Ch 9. Natural Plant Dyes of Oriental Carpets

                                                Jeffrey Deakin

Iraq and Syria

                        Ch 10. Wheat and Rice – Ancient and Modern Cereals

                                                Raymond Cooper and Jeffrey Deakin

Georgia

                        Ch 11. Ethnobotany of the Silk Road – Georgia, the Cradle of Wine

                                                 Rainer W Bussmann, Zambrana Paniagua, Y Narel,

                                                 Shalva Sikharulidze, Zaal Kikvidze, David Kikodze,

Turkey

                        Ch 12. Plants Endemic to Turkey including the Arnebia genus

                                                  Ufuk Koca-Çalişkan and Ceylan Dönmez

                             

SECTION V   MARITIME ROUTES

Sri Lanka

                        Ch 13. Maritime Routes through Sri Lanka: Medicinal Plants and Spices

                                    Viduranga Y Waisundara

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

INDEX