Annual Plant Reviews, Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism (Volume 40, 2)

January 22, 2012

Annual Plant Reviews, Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism (Volume 40, 2)

This brand new Annual Plant Reviews volume is the second edition of the highly successful and well-received Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 2.

This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date survey of the biochemistry and physiology of plant secondary metabolism. The volume commences with an overview of the biochemistry, physiology and function of secondary metabolism, followed by detailed reviews of the major groups of secondary metabolites: alkaloids and betalains, cyanogenic glucosides, glucosinolates and nonprotein amino acids, phenyl propanoids and related phenolics, terpenoids, cardiac glycosides and saponins. A final chapter discusses the evolution of secondary metabolism.
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Annual Plant Reviews, Plant Polysaccharides: Biosynthesis and Bioengineering (Volume 41)

January 20, 2012

Annual Plant Reviews, Plant Polysaccharides: Biosynthesis and Bioengineering (Volume 41)

Plant Polysaccharides, an exceptional new volume in Wiley-Blackwell’s successful Annual Plant Reviews series, covers the polysaccharides and proteins that form the fundamental architecture of the plant cell wall, and the genes that encode the cellular machinery that synthesizes them.

The volume focuses on the evolution of the many families of genes whose products are required to make a particular kind of polysaccharide, bringing attention to the specific biochemical properties of the proteins to the level of kinds of sugar linkages they make.
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