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The economic importance of plants is immense with plants being used as a source of food, construction materials, fabrics and paper and fuel. In addition, plants contribute to a wide array of chemicals used in industry including pharmaceuticals, foods, flavours, dyes, pigments and agrochemicals. The potential for chemical synthesis within the plant kingdom is vast, something of the order of 2 × 104 structures are known from plants. New chemical structures reported from plants each year are currently running in excess of 1500.
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Fowler, M.W., Scragg, A.H. (1988). Natural Products from Higher Plants and Plant Cell Culture. In: Pais, M.S.S., Mavituna, F., Novais, J.M. (eds) Plant Cell Biotechnology. NATO ASI Series, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73157-0_17
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