6 Chemotaxonomy in Relation to Molecular Phylogeny of Plants
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 2: Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism
Michael Wink,
Peter G. Waterman,
Michael Wink
Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
Search for more papers by this authorPeter G. Waterman
Centre for Phytochemistry, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480 Australia
Search for more papers by this authorMichael Wink,
Peter G. Waterman,
Michael Wink
Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
Search for more papers by this authorPeter G. Waterman
Centre for Phytochemistry, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480 Australia
Search for more papers by this authorThis article was originally published in 1998 in Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781841270074) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Michael Wink. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introduction
- The Establishment of Chemotaxonomy as a Research Discipline
- Developments in Small Molecule Chemotaxonomy Over the Past 25 Years
- Molecular Biology and Plant Taxonomy
- Comparison between Patterns of Secondary Metabolites and Molecular Phylogeny
- Acknowledgements
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