Plant-Derived Antimycotics

Current Trends and Future Prospects

M.k. Rai, Donatella Mares

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040277362
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology

An important overview of the state of the art in naturally occurring antimycotics!Here is a comprehensive and innovative examination of the antimycotic potential of essential plant oils and extracts against fungal infections affecting humans, animals, plants, and foodstuffs. Plant-Derived Antimycotics emphasizes the antimycotic activity of plants found in Central America, India, Nepal, Fiji, and China--areas rich in phyto-diversity and traditional botanical/medical knowledge.From editor M.K. Rai: "Since the inception of human civilization men have been using herbs against various mycotic infections. In the recent past, several antimycotic agents have been introduced into the market due to their rapid curative properties. Still, the quest for new antifungal agents of a fungicidal rather than fungistatic nature continues. Furthermore, there has been a dramatic increase in the new spectrum of fungal infections known as opportunistic fungal pathogens. Consequently, plant-derived antimycotics are gaining importance, being natural, cheaper, safer, eco-friendly, and within the reach of the common man."With a distinguished list of contributors from around the world, Plant-Derived Antimycotics explores:

• antifungal compounds that strengthen plant-defense systems
• traditional herbs that have revealed their antifungal properties
• newer, faster methods of screening and evaluating antifungal drugs
• natural antimycotics derived from plants in Croatia, South America, South Africa, China, India, and Fiji
• the mechanism of herbal antimycotic action
• the diversity of antimycotic efficacy in Asteraceous and Meliaceous plants
• new bioactive antifungal molecules

Plant-Derived Antimycotics is an essential reference for pharmacologists, microbiologists, clinical mycologists, oncologists, immunologists, drug manufacturers, botanists and ethnobotanists, phytochemists, herbalists, and everyone searching for a natural remedy for the new spectrum of opportunistic fungal infections generated by the immunocompromising difficulties encountered by AIDS and cancer patients. Color illustrations, photographs, charts, tables, and graphs make the information easier to absorb and understand.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1. The Need for New Antifungal Drugs: Screening for Antifungal Compounds with a Selective Mode of Action with Emphasis on the Inhibitors of the Fungal Cell Wall
• Chapter 2. Natural Antimycotics from Croatian Plants
• Chapter 3. Antimycotic Activity of the Members of Meliaceae
• Chapter 4. Plant-Derived Extracts and Preparations As Antimycotics
• Chapter 5. Dermatophytes As a Tool in the Discovery of New Natural Substances to Be Used As Antimycotics: Use of Microsporum cookei As a Vehicle for Reflections on the Protoanemonin Action Mechanism
• Chapter 6. Plant-Derived Antimycotics: Potential of Asteraceous Plants
• Chapter 7. Recent Advances in the Search for Antimycotic Activity in South American Plants
• Chapter 8. Current State and Future Directions in Plant-Derived Antimycotics
• Chapter 9. Plant Screening for Light-Activated Antifungal Activity
• Chapter 10. Antifungal Saponins from White Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) Bottoms and Their Physiological Role in the Plant Defense System
• Chapter 11. Activity of Plant Extracts, Essential Oils, and Pure Compounds Against Fungi Contaminating Foodstuffs and Causing Infections in Human Beings and Animals: A Six-Year Experience (1995-2000)
• Chapter 12. Antimycotic Activity of Essential Oils: The Possibility of Using New Bioactive Products Derived from Plants
• Chapter 13. Antimycotic Potential in Some Naturally Occurring Essential Oils
• Chapter 14. Antimycotic Essential Oils: Impact on Skin Microflora
• Chapter 15. Antimycotic Potential in Plants of Central and West Africa
• Chapter 16. Antimycotic Principles of Pentanema indicum (L.) Ling
• Chapter 17. Rapid Test Methods for Evaluation of Antifungal Activity
• Chapter 18. A New Technique for the Evaluation of Antifungal Activity of an Alcohol Extract of Eugenia caryophyllata Thunberg on Penicillium digitatum
• Chapter 19. Palestinian Plants As a Source of Antimycotics
• Chapter 20. Native Use of Herbal Drugs for Treatment of Skin Diseases in Nepal
• Chapter 21. The Antimycotic Potential of Fijian Plants
• Chapter 22. Triterpenic Glycosides—Their Isolation Methods and Antifungal Activities
• Chapter 23. Structure, Function, and Biological Activity of Rice Phytoalexins and Elicitors
• Chapter 24. Antifungal Agents from Traditional Chinese Medicines Against Rice Blast Fungus Pyricularia oryzae Cavara
• Index