Natural Products from Plants, Second Edition offers a thorough inventory of the various types of plant-derived compounds alongside the most effective ways to identify, extract, analyze, and characterize new plant-derived compounds. This edition presents seven new chapters and over 50% new topics relating to the study of plant constituents, including natural product biochemistry, new information on how plant natural products act at target sites in humans, modern molecular biology, and plant biotechnology for the production of natural products. Fully indexed using common, scientific, and chemical names, it presents examples of plant products used in food and beverages, disease prevention and treatment, pest control, textiles, fragrances, and more.