Main description:

This reference work provides a comprehensive overview of bioactive compounds investigated in bryophytes and pteridophytes and explores their nutritional, biological, pharmacological and ecological effects. Bryophytes are cosmopolitan lower plants that are rich in phytochemicals including fatty acids, tocopherols, phenolics, terpenoids. Additionally, these plants contain bibenzyls, bis-benzyls, and polyketides which have been demonstrated to have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and cytotoxic activities. Pteridophytes are another group of lower vascular plants which were reported to have useful secondary compounds such as flavonoids, steroids, phenolics, terpenoids, and these plants impart medicinal values including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and anti-HIV activities.

This book contains comprehensive contributions compiled by expert scientists and researchers in this field.The book offers a useful resource for plant biotechnologists, plant biologists, pharmacologists, pharmacists, food technologists, nutritionists, research investigators of the healthcare industry, academia, faculty, and students of biology and biomedical sciences. It also provides a strategic framework for further research and development activities of bryophytes and pteridophytes of the world.

Contents:

Constituents of Bryophytes: Application to Foods, Cosmetics, and Medicines.-Bioactive compounds from Bryophytes.- Anticancerous compounds from bryophytes: recent advances with special emphasis on bis(bi)benzyls.- Bioactive compounds and biological activities of Pellia endiviifolia.-Immunomodulatory potential of Hedwigia ciliata and Hypnum cupressiforme.- Bryophytes as an accumulator of toxic elements from the environment - Recent advances and it's foretaste.- Therapeutic potential of bryophytes and its future perspective.- Volatile compounds and oils from Mosses and Liverworts.- Extracts from the liverwort Bazzania trilobata with potential dermo-cosmetic properties.- Bioactive compounds of Pteridophytes.-Bioactive compounds of ferns.- Anticancer properties of pteridophytes and derived compounds: pharmacological perspectives and medicinal use.- Insecticide activity of ferns and lycophytes.- Phytochemicals of pteridophytes for treating human ailments.- Bioactive compounds and biological activities of Dipteris wallichii.- Phychemicals from the Pteridaceae family and their prospects as future drugs.- Bioactive compounds and biological activities of Cyathea species.- Phytochemistry and biological activity of Blechnum species.- Phytochemicals and biological activities of Asplenium ceterach.- Phytochemicals and biological activities of Selaginella species.- Phytochemicals of Adiantum capillus-veneris.- Bioactive compounds in Polypodium vulgare.- Phytochemicals and their bioactivity from plants of Dryopteridaceae Family.- Allelochemicals from Pteridium arachnoideum.- Bioactive compounds of Mexican Fern Elaphoglossum paleaceum.- Phytochemicals and biological activities of Stenochlaena palustris.- Fern fatty acids: from diversity to dietary value.- Biotechnology investigations in Bryophytes and Pteridophytes.- Bryophytes and the nanotechnology: recent developments and perspectives.- Eco-metabolomics studies in Bryophytes.- Extracts and composites of Equisetum for bone regeneration.- Pteridophytes as ecological indicators.- Physiological Ecology of Ferns.