Bioprospecting : success, potential and constraints

• Other Authors: Paterson, Russell, (Editor), Lima, Nelson, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
• Series: Topics in biodiversity and conservation ; v. 16.
• Subjects: biodiverzita; mikrobiální biotechnologie; léčivé rostliny; microbial biotechnology; medicinal plants; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319479354; 9783319479330
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a forward by David Hawksworth. The organisms addressed include plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and phages. Bioprospecting has never been more relevant and is of renewed interest, because of the extremely worrying rise in...