Y. Asakawa, A. Ludwiczuk, and F. Nagashima
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The authors are grateful to Professors Douglas Kinghorn and Heinz Falk for their enormous assistance and encouragement with the preparation of the manuscript and whose contributions to this volume went far beyond their editorial duties. Thanks are also due to the late Professor Guy Ourisson (Universite´ Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France) and the late Professor Meinhart Zenk (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, USA), Prof. Robert Gradstein (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), Prof. Alicia Bardo´n (Tucuman National University,
Argentina), and Prof. Chia-Li Wu (Tamkang University, Taiwan) for valuable discussions on the biological activity, biosynthesis, and chemosystematics of liverwort constituents. The authors also acknowledge Profs. Masao Toyota, Toshihiro Hashimoto, Motoo Tori, Yoshiyasu Fukuyama, and Takashi Kuzuhara (Tokushima Bunri University) and the former postdoctorals, Drs. Leslie Harrison, Malcolm Buchanan, Lahlou Hassane, and Liva Harinantenaina for their contributions to the chemistry of bryophytes. The authors also thank Mr. Masana Izawa (Saitama, Japan) for his pictures of several liverworts. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for the Scientific Research (A) (No. 11309012) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Tokyo, Japan.
Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes
