For some 50 years, Professor Asakawa and his group have focused
their research on the chemical constituents of bryophytes and have
found that these plants contain large numbers of secondary
metabolites, such as terpenoids, acetogenins, and aromatic
compounds representative of many new skeletons, which exhibit
interesting biological activities. Individual terpenoids, when
found as constituents of both a bryophyte and a higher plant, tend
to occur in different enantiomeric forms. Professor Asakawa has
covered the literature on bryophytes in two earlier volumes of
"Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products," namely,
Volumes 42 (1982) and 65 (1995). Since the publication of the
latter volume, a great deal of new information has appeared on
bryophytes. One example is that known sex pheromones of algae have
been discovered in two liverworts, indicating that some members of
the latter taxonomic group might originate from brown algae. From
information provided in this volume, it is suggested that two
orders of the Marchantiophyta should be combined.
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