Anders Backlund
Garden director at Music and Museums; The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala; Administration och intendenter
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 79
- E-mail:
- anders.backlund@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 6-8
- Postal address:
- Villavägen 8
752 36 UPPSALA
Professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences; Research; Pharmacognosy
- Telephone:
- +46 70 277 92 79
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 79
- E-mail:
- anders.backlund@farmbio.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
75124 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 591
75124 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-2043-4183
Short presentation
BSc in Biology 1990, MSc in Systematic Botany 1992, and PhD in Systematic Botany in 1996, all at Uppsala University. Postdoctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin and SLU 1997-1998. Senior lecturer in Pharmacognosy 1999, Docent 2006, and appointed Professor in Pharmacognosy 2011.
Vice-Dean for Research Training - Scientific Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy from 2017.
Awarded NFR Popular Science Prize 1998, and UU Best Teacher Award 2015. Fellow of The Linnean Society of London (FLS) since 1999.
Research
ChemGPS-NPweb site for chemography http://chemgps.bmc.uu.se

Publications
Selection of publications
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Briaviolides K-N, New Briarane-Type Diterpenoids from Cultured Octocoral Briareum violaceum
Part of Marine Drugs, 2018
- DOI for Briaviolides K-N, New Briarane-Type Diterpenoids from Cultured Octocoral Briareum violaceum
- Download full text (pdf) of Briaviolides K-N, New Briarane-Type Diterpenoids from Cultured Octocoral Briareum violaceum
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Anti-allergic Hydroxy Fatty Acids from Typhonium blumei Explored through ChemGPS-NP
Part of Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017
- DOI for Anti-allergic Hydroxy Fatty Acids from Typhonium blumei Explored through ChemGPS-NP
- Download full text (pdf) of Anti-allergic Hydroxy Fatty Acids from Typhonium blumei Explored through ChemGPS-NP
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Part of Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
- DOI for Cyclotide Evolution: Insights from the Analyses of Their Precursor Sequences, Structures and Distribution in Violets (Viola)
- Download full text (pdf) of Cyclotide Evolution: Insights from the Analyses of Their Precursor Sequences, Structures and Distribution in Violets (Viola)
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Part of Molecules, 2017
- DOI for Spasmolytic Mechanism of Aqueous Licorice Extract on Oxytocin-Induced Uterine Contraction through Inhibiting the Phosphorylation of Heat Shock Protein 27
- Download full text (pdf) of Spasmolytic Mechanism of Aqueous Licorice Extract on Oxytocin-Induced Uterine Contraction through Inhibiting the Phosphorylation of Heat Shock Protein 27
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Cytotoxic Lanostanoids from Poria cocos
Part of Journal of natural products (Print), p. 2805-2813, 2016
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Anti-Dengue Virus Constituents from Formosan Zoanthid Palythoa mutuki
Part of Marine Drugs, 2016
- DOI for Anti-Dengue Virus Constituents from Formosan Zoanthid Palythoa mutuki
- Download full text (pdf) of Anti-Dengue Virus Constituents from Formosan Zoanthid Palythoa mutuki
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Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
- DOI for The Dynamics of Lateral Gene Transfer in Genus Leishmania - A Route for Adaptation and Species Diversification
- Download full text (pdf) of The Dynamics of Lateral Gene Transfer in Genus Leishmania - A Route for Adaptation and Species Diversification
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Investigating Pharmacological Similarity by Charting Chemical Space
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 2375-2390, 2015
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Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, p. 119, 2014
- DOI for A recently transferred cluster of bacterial genes in Trichomonas vaginalis - lateral gene transfer and the fate of acquired genes
- Download full text (pdf) of A recently transferred cluster of bacterial genes in Trichomonas vaginalis - lateral gene transfer and the fate of acquired genes
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Part of Phytochemistry Reviews, p. 449-457, 2013
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
- DOI for Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Phenanthrenes as Cytotoxic Agents with Pharmacophore Modeling and ChemGPS-NP Prediction as Topo II Inhibitors
- Download full text (pdf) of Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Phenanthrenes as Cytotoxic Agents with Pharmacophore Modeling and ChemGPS-NP Prediction as Topo II Inhibitors
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Novel Trisubstituted Harmine Derivatives with Original in Vitro Anticancer Activity
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6489-6501, 2012
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Natural products in modern life science
Part of Phytochemistry Reviews, p. 279-301, 2010
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Topical chemical space in relation to biological space
Part of Comprehensive Natural Products II, p. 47-79, Elsevier, 2010
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The edible truffle Choiromyces venosus and its use in Sweden
Part of Acta Botanica Yunnanica, p. 94-96, 2009
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ChemGPS-NP mapping of chemical compounds for prediction of anticancer mode of action
Part of QSAR & combinatorial science (Print), p. 436-446, 2009
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ChemGPS-NPweb: chemical space navigation online
Part of Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, p. 253-259, 2009
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Novel chemical space exploration via natural products
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1953-1962, 2009
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Regarding the putative identity of a moth (Thaumetopoea spp.) allergen
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 493-493, 2009
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Structure and function of Rubisco
Part of Plant physiology and biochemistry (Paris), p. 275-291, 2008
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Reappraising a decade old explanatory model for pharmacognosy
Part of Phytochemistry Letters, p. 131-134, 2008
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Modern pharmacognosy: Connecting biology and chemistry
Part of Pure and Applied Chemistry, p. 763-774, 2007
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An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants
Part of ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, p. 531-553, 1998
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Part of Plant Systematics and Evolution, p. 225-254, 1997
Recent publications
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Part of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 2025
- DOI for Anticoronavirus Isoquinoline Alkaloids: Unraveling the Secrets of Their Structure-Activity Relationship
- Download full text (pdf) of Anticoronavirus Isoquinoline Alkaloids: Unraveling the Secrets of Their Structure-Activity Relationship
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Part of Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2025
- DOI for Phytochemical combinations of lichen Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach. reduce drug resistance to temozolomide but not to paclitaxel in vitro
- Download full text (pdf) of Phytochemical combinations of lichen Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach. reduce drug resistance to temozolomide but not to paclitaxel in vitro
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Part of ACS Omega, p. 37116-37127, 2023
- DOI for Anti-inflammatory and Antiphytopathogenic Fungal Activity of 2,3-seco-Tirucallane Triterpenoids Meliadubins A and B from Melia dubia Cav. Barks with ChemGPS-NP and In Silico Prediction
- Download full text (pdf) of Anti-inflammatory and Antiphytopathogenic Fungal Activity of 2,3-seco-Tirucallane Triterpenoids Meliadubins A and B from Melia dubia Cav. Barks with ChemGPS-NP and In Silico Prediction
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Part of Pharmaceutics, 2022
- DOI for Stability Study of Alpinia galanga Constituents and Investigation of Their Membrane Permeability by ChemGPS-NP and the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay
- Download full text (pdf) of Stability Study of Alpinia galanga Constituents and Investigation of Their Membrane Permeability by ChemGPS-NP and the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2022
- DOI for In vitro and in silico evaluation of Ononis isoflavonoids as molecules targeting the central nervous system
- Download full text (pdf) of In vitro and in silico evaluation of Ononis isoflavonoids as molecules targeting the central nervous system
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 2025
- DOI for Anticoronavirus Isoquinoline Alkaloids: Unraveling the Secrets of Their Structure-Activity Relationship
- Download full text (pdf) of Anticoronavirus Isoquinoline Alkaloids: Unraveling the Secrets of Their Structure-Activity Relationship
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Part of Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2025
- DOI for Phytochemical combinations of lichen Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach. reduce drug resistance to temozolomide but not to paclitaxel in vitro
- Download full text (pdf) of Phytochemical combinations of lichen Evernia prunastri (L.) Ach. reduce drug resistance to temozolomide but not to paclitaxel in vitro
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Part of ACS Omega, p. 37116-37127, 2023
- DOI for Anti-inflammatory and Antiphytopathogenic Fungal Activity of 2,3-seco-Tirucallane Triterpenoids Meliadubins A and B from Melia dubia Cav. Barks with ChemGPS-NP and In Silico Prediction
- Download full text (pdf) of Anti-inflammatory and Antiphytopathogenic Fungal Activity of 2,3-seco-Tirucallane Triterpenoids Meliadubins A and B from Melia dubia Cav. Barks with ChemGPS-NP and In Silico Prediction
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Part of Pharmaceutics, 2022
- DOI for Stability Study of Alpinia galanga Constituents and Investigation of Their Membrane Permeability by ChemGPS-NP and the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay
- Download full text (pdf) of Stability Study of Alpinia galanga Constituents and Investigation of Their Membrane Permeability by ChemGPS-NP and the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2022
- DOI for In vitro and in silico evaluation of Ononis isoflavonoids as molecules targeting the central nervous system
- Download full text (pdf) of In vitro and in silico evaluation of Ononis isoflavonoids as molecules targeting the central nervous system
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Part of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, p. 11856-11866, 2021
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2021
- DOI for Survival and growth of saprotrophic and mycorrhizal fungi in recalcitrant amine, amide and ammonium containing media
- Download full text (pdf) of Survival and growth of saprotrophic and mycorrhizal fungi in recalcitrant amine, amide and ammonium containing media
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Part of Molecules, 2020
- DOI for Evaluating Antimycobacterial Screening Schemes Using Chemical Global Positioning System-Natural Product Analysis
- Download full text (pdf) of Evaluating Antimycobacterial Screening Schemes Using Chemical Global Positioning System-Natural Product Analysis
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Part of Phytochemistry Letters, p. 6-11, 2020
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Part of Journal of Systematics and Evolution, p. 103-117, 2020
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Part of Journal of Natural Products, p. 798-812, 2019
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Briaviolides K-N, New Briarane-Type Diterpenoids from Cultured Octocoral Briareum violaceum
Part of Marine Drugs, 2018
- DOI for Briaviolides K-N, New Briarane-Type Diterpenoids from Cultured Octocoral Briareum violaceum
- Download full text (pdf) of Briaviolides K-N, New Briarane-Type Diterpenoids from Cultured Octocoral Briareum violaceum
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Anti-allergic Hydroxy Fatty Acids from Typhonium blumei Explored through ChemGPS-NP
Part of Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017
- DOI for Anti-allergic Hydroxy Fatty Acids from Typhonium blumei Explored through ChemGPS-NP
- Download full text (pdf) of Anti-allergic Hydroxy Fatty Acids from Typhonium blumei Explored through ChemGPS-NP
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Part of Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
- DOI for Cyclotide Evolution: Insights from the Analyses of Their Precursor Sequences, Structures and Distribution in Violets (Viola)
- Download full text (pdf) of Cyclotide Evolution: Insights from the Analyses of Their Precursor Sequences, Structures and Distribution in Violets (Viola)
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Part of Molecules, 2017
- DOI for Spasmolytic Mechanism of Aqueous Licorice Extract on Oxytocin-Induced Uterine Contraction through Inhibiting the Phosphorylation of Heat Shock Protein 27
- Download full text (pdf) of Spasmolytic Mechanism of Aqueous Licorice Extract on Oxytocin-Induced Uterine Contraction through Inhibiting the Phosphorylation of Heat Shock Protein 27
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35 Years of Marine Natural Product Research in Sweden: Cool Molecules and Models from Cold Waters.
Part of Progress in molecular and subcellular biology, p. 1-34, 2017
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Cytotoxic Lanostanoids from Poria cocos
Part of Journal of natural products (Print), p. 2805-2813, 2016
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Anti-Dengue Virus Constituents from Formosan Zoanthid Palythoa mutuki
Part of Marine Drugs, 2016
- DOI for Anti-Dengue Virus Constituents from Formosan Zoanthid Palythoa mutuki
- Download full text (pdf) of Anti-Dengue Virus Constituents from Formosan Zoanthid Palythoa mutuki
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Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
- DOI for The Dynamics of Lateral Gene Transfer in Genus Leishmania - A Route for Adaptation and Species Diversification
- Download full text (pdf) of The Dynamics of Lateral Gene Transfer in Genus Leishmania - A Route for Adaptation and Species Diversification
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Phylogenetic relationships through the lens of chemoinformatic methods
Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Bioactivity mapping of chemical property space - possible applications in natural products research
Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Mapping metabolic pathways in chemical property space paves the way for new leishmanicidals
Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Antileukemic sesterterpenoids from a marine sponge, Luffariella sp.
Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Predicting inhibitors of HSP27 phosphorylation using ChemGPS-NP
Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Part of Planta Medica, 2016
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Investigating Pharmacological Similarity by Charting Chemical Space
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 2375-2390, 2015
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Part of Journal of Microbiological Methods, p. 25-30, 2015
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"Ligand fishing" in chemical space reveals new potential leishmanicidals
Part of Planta Medica, p. 1420-1420, 2015
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Antileukemic lanostanoids from Poria cocos
Part of Planta Medica, p. 1418-1418, 2015
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Charting biological activity in chemical property space using ChemGPS-NP
Part of Planta Medica, p. 1413-1413, 2015
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"Ligand fishing" in chemical space reveals new potential leishmanicidals
Part of Planta Medica, p. 1473-1473, 2015
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Antileukemic lanostanoids from Poria cocos
Part of Planta Medica, p. 1453-1453, 2015
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Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, p. 119, 2014
- DOI for A recently transferred cluster of bacterial genes in Trichomonas vaginalis - lateral gene transfer and the fate of acquired genes
- Download full text (pdf) of A recently transferred cluster of bacterial genes in Trichomonas vaginalis - lateral gene transfer and the fate of acquired genes
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Impulse Lecture: The odd fellow - Benefits of anomaly
Part of Planta Medica, p. 1373-1374, 2014
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
- DOI for Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Phenanthrenes as Cytotoxic Agents with Pharmacophore Modeling and ChemGPS-NP Prediction as Topo II Inhibitors
- Download full text (pdf) of Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Phenanthrenes as Cytotoxic Agents with Pharmacophore Modeling and ChemGPS-NP Prediction as Topo II Inhibitors
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Novel Trisubstituted Harmine Derivatives with Original in Vitro Anticancer Activity
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6489-6501, 2012
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Natural products in modern life science
Part of Phytochemistry Reviews, p. 279-301, 2010
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Secondary chemistry and ribosomal DNA data congruencies in Arnica (Asteraceae)
Part of Cladistics, p. 78-92, 2009
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The edible truffle Choiromyces venosus and its use in Sweden
Part of Acta Botanica Yunnanica, p. 94-96, 2009
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ChemGPS-NP mapping of chemical compounds for prediction of anticancer mode of action
Part of QSAR & combinatorial science (Print), p. 436-446, 2009
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ChemGPS-NPweb: chemical space navigation online
Part of Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, p. 253-259, 2009
-
Novel chemical space exploration via natural products
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1953-1962, 2009
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Regarding the putative identity of a moth (Thaumetopoea spp.) allergen
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 493-493, 2009
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Structure and function of Rubisco
Part of Plant physiology and biochemistry (Paris), p. 275-291, 2008
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Part of Planta Medica, p. 1789-1794, 2008
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Reappraising a decade old explanatory model for pharmacognosy
Part of Phytochemistry Letters, p. 131-134, 2008
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Part of Planta Medica, 2008
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Teoribildning öppnar nya fält för naturproduktsforskning
Part of Läkemedelsvärlden, p. 31, 2008
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ChemGPS-NPweb A tool tuned for navigation in biologically relevant chemical space
Part of Embnet.news, p. 6-9, 2008
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Modern pharmacognosy: Connecting biology and chemistry
Part of Pure and Applied Chemistry, p. 763-774, 2007
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ChemGPS-NP: tuned for navigation in biologically relevant chemical space
Part of Journal of natural products (Print), p. 789-794, 2007
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Chemography and Phylogeny: navigating chemical and evolutionary space
Part of Planta Medica, p. 972-972, 2006
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Chemosystematic value of cyclopeptide alkaloids from Heisteria nitida (Olacaceae)
Part of Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, p. 831-839, 2005
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Expanding the ChemGPS chemical space with natural products
Part of Journal of natural products (Print), p. 985-991, 2005
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The population of the hypogeous fungus Tuber aestivum syn T. uncinatum on the island of Gotland
Part of Mycorrhiza, p. 19-23, 2004
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Primary and 3-D modelled structures of two cyclotides from Viola odorata
Part of Phytochemistry, p. 135-142, 2003
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A neutrophil multitarget functional bioassay to detect anti-inflammatory natural products
Part of Journal of natural products (Print), p. 32-41, 2002
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Part of Botanical bulletin of Academia Sinica, p. 57-62, 2002
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Part of Drug information journal, p. 839-854, 2002
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Cyclotides: a novel type of cytotoxic agents
Part of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, p. 365-369, 2002
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Selective cytotoxicity evaluation in anticancer drug screening of fractionated plant extracts
Part of Journal of Biomolecular Screening, p. 333-340, 2002
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Part of Cladistics, p. 28-47, 2001
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First crystal structure of Rubisco from a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, p. 48159-48164, 2001
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Phylogeny of the eudicots: a nearly complete familial analysis based on rbcL gene sequences
Part of Kew bulletin, p. 257-309, 2000
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Part of Journal of plant research, p. 573-580, 1998
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To be or not to be - principles of classification and monotypic plant families
Part of Taxon, p. 391-400, 1998
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Phylogenetic implications of an expanded valepotriate distribution in the Valerianaceae
Part of Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, p. 309-335, 1998
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Diervillaceae and Linnaeaceae, two new families of caprifolioids
Part of Taxon, p. 657-661, 1998
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An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants
Part of ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, p. 531-553, 1998
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Pollen morphology and the systematic position of Triplostegia (Dipsacales)
Part of Taxon, p. 21-31, 1997
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Part of Plant Systematics and Evolution, p. 225-254, 1997
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Part of Plant Systematics and Evolution, p. 217-242, 1996
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Bioassay-guided isolation of a cytotoxic quinolizidine alkaloid from Nuphar luteum
Part of Chemistry and Biodiversity
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Articles, review/survey
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Part of Phytochemistry Reviews, p. 449-457, 2013
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Microbial diversity of Alcyonium digitatum
Part of Phytochemistry Reviews, p. 531-542, 2013
Books
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Klum collection anteckningsbok
Tierra Grande, 2008
Chapters in book
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Part of The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, p. 19-29, Springer, 2016
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Part of The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, p. 141-144, Springer, 2016
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Part of The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, p. 377-379, Springer, 2016
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Topical chemical space in relation to biological space
Part of Comprehensive Natural Products II, p. 47-79, Elsevier, 2010
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Part of Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, 2002
Conference papers
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Systematics, ecology, pharmacognosy, vitamin content and cultivation of Choiromyces in Sweden
Part of The fifth international workshop of edible mycorrhizal mushrooms, 2007
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Stjärnhovstryffel - Släktet Choiromyces i Sverige och Europa
Part of Systematikdagarna 2007, 2007
Manuscripts (preprints)
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Comparison of extraction methods for alkaline thionins from mistletoes
2012
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Screening for small cytotoxic peptides in Loranthaceae and Santalaceae
2012
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Cytotoxicity of small peptides of misletoes in the familiy Loranthaceae, Santalales
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Delineating small plant polypeptides: with a proposal on their classification and circumscription