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Effectively utilize the benefit of polyphenols derived from plants

Table of Contents

Part 1: Modification by plant growth and environment

1. Cultivar and production effects on bioactive polyphenols

2. Plant polyphenol profiles as a tool for traceability and valuable support to biodiversity

Section A: Stress and polyphenol in plants

3. Phenolic compounds and saponins in plants grown under different irrigation regimes

4. Lichen phenolics: environment effects Section B: Plant systems of polyphenol modification

5. Modulation of plant endogenous antioxidant systems by polyphenols

6. Plant polyphenols: do they control freshwater planktonic nuisance phototrophs?

Part 2: Isolation and analysis of polyphenol structure

Section A: Analysis techniques for polyphenols

7. Gas chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of polyphenols in foods

8. Novel techniques towards the identification of different classes of polyphenols

9. Characterization of polyphenolic profile of citrus fruit by HPLC/PDA/ESI/MS-MS

Section B: Isolation and extraction techniques

10. Non-extractable polyphenols in plant food: nature, isolation and analysis

11. Resin adsorption and ion exchange to recover and fractionate polyphenols

12. Polyphenolic compounds from flowers of Hibiscus: characterization and bioactivity

13. Hydrothermal processing on phenols and polyphenols vegetables

Part 3: Polyphenols identification and occurrence

14. Improved characterization of polyphenols using liquid chromatography

15. Characterization and quantification of polyphenols in fruits

16. Determination of polyphenols, flavonoids, and antioxidant capacity in seeds

About the Author

Ronald R. Watson, Ph.D., attended the University of Idaho but graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a degree in chemistry in 1966. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1971. His postdoctoral schooling in nutrition and microbiology was completed at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he gained 2 years of postdoctoral research experience in immunology and nutrition. From 1973 to 1974 Dr. Watson was assistant professor of immunology and performed research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He was assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Indiana University Medical School from 1974 to 1978 and associate professor at Purdue University in the Department of Food and Nutrition from 1978 to 1982. In 1982 Dr. Watson joined the faculty at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the School of Medicine. He is currently professor of health promotion sciences in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health. Dr. Watson is a member of national and international nutrition, immunology, cancer, and alcoholism research societies. His patents are for antioxidant polyphenols in several dietary supplements including passion fruit peel extract, with more pending. This results from more than 10 years of polyphenol research in animal models and human clinical trials. He had done research on mouse AIDS and immune function for 20 years. For 30 years he was funded by NIH and Foundations to study dietary supplements in health promotion. Dr. Watson has edited more than 0 books on nutrition, dietary supplements and over-the-counter agents, and drugs of abuse, as scientific reference books. He has published more than 500 research and review articles.