The Handbook of Natural Flavonoids, 2 Volume Set
Harborne, Jeffrey B. (University of Reading, UK) / Baxter, Herbert (Consultant, Ilford, Essex, UK)
Flavonoids are a large and important group of natural products derived from 'flavone'. Some flavonoids are intensely coloured, providing a spectrum of colours from red to blue in flowers, fruit and leaves. Other flavonoids are essentially colourless, producing the 'whiteness' of white flowers. Besides their contribution to plant colour, flavonoids have a variety of other roles in the growth and development of plants. Leaf flavonoids provide pr...