Chemists, biochemists, phytochemists, pharmacologists, and other scientists explore the antioxidant and biocide properties of wild plants, primarily in Latin America. After an overview and background perspectives, they address the two properties in turn. The topics include proanthocyanins in cacao, biocidal metabolites from endophytes that occur in medicinal plants, Chilean plants as a source of polyphenols, phytoecdysteroids and related sterols isolated from Mexican cacti and their potential use as natural insecticides, natural polymers and their biological activities, and anti-Salmonella agents from the Brazilian medicinal plant Tanacetum balsamita and their applications. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)