Re-printed as a paperback for textbook use, this title provides students in plant sciences with a concise general account of plant biochemistry. Up-to-date surveys are divided into four sections: the cell, primary metabolism, special metabolism, and the plant and the environment. There is a strong emphasis on plant metabolism as well as enzymological, methodological, molecular biological, functional, and regulatory aspects of plant biochemistry. Illustrations of metabolic pathways are used extensively, and further reading lists are also included.
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Plant Biochemistry provides students and researchers in the plant sciences with a concise, up-to-date account of the biochemical basis of the major metabolic processes in plants, written by experts in the field.
The coverage of the subject is divided into four sections:
* The plant cell-describing both molecular components and function.
* Primary metabolism-including the pathways of carbohydrate, lipid, nitrogen, nucleic acid and protein metabolism as well as gene regulation.
* Special metabolism-chapters on phenolics, isoprenoids and secondary nitrogen compounds.
* The plant and the environment-discussions of pathology, ecology and biotechnology at the molecular level.
The emphasis is on plant metabolism, but functional, regulatory, and molecular biological aspects have been covered, as well as illustrations of pathways, structural features, and bibliographies. This book will be of interest to a wide audience from final year undergraduates to active researchers in the field. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The coverage of the subject is divided into four sections:
* The plant cell-describing both molecular components and function.
* Primary metabolism-including the pathways of carbohydrate, lipid, nitrogen, nucleic acid and protein metabolism as well as gene regulation.
* Special metabolism-chapters on phenolics, isoprenoids and secondary nitrogen compounds.
* The plant and the environment-discussions of pathology, ecology and biotechnology at the molecular level.
The emphasis is on plant metabolism, but functional, regulatory, and molecular biological aspects have been covered, as well as illustrations of pathways, structural features, and bibliographies. This book will be of interest to a wide audience from final year undergraduates to active researchers in the field. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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text books are not meant to be easy,
This review is from: Plant Biochemistry (Hardcover)
Well I thought that this was a very good text book. Yes it has few diagrams and LOTS of information, but it is meant as a senior university level plant biochem text, not a pretty-pretty introduction to first year biology. It makes you think about the topics and seek out other references, which is what you need to do in the real world of scientific research. There are absolutely loads of references to, at the time, recent research papers. I don't think the book was ever meant for the Discovery Channel, but rather to be a useful reference for working plant biochemists. It is a complicated, often confusing, contradicatory subject, with no definte "Text Book" answers. It is very heavy for a backpack though.
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Poorly written book. Little continuity, small diagrams, too much information thrown at you on each page. Not well organized. Good for research maybe, NOT as a text book.
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This chapter fills in the necessary background on the biology and molecular biology of plants for what follows in later chapters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydroxycinnamate conjugates, invertase isoenzymes, sucrose synthase reaction, galactosyl branches, fructan oligosaccharides, plant primary cell wall, galactosyl donor, integral membrane protein complexes, granal membranes, fructan synthesis, appressed membranes, active defense responses, sucrose cleavage, organellar genes, seed storage protein genes, chemical defense compounds, avr genes, sugar nucleotide precursors, acetohydroxy acid synthase, pyranose ring form, hrp genes, carbonum race, shikonin production, photorespiratory pathway, homogenization medium Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Plant Physiol, Academic Press, New York, Plant Mol, New Phytol, San Diego, Plant Sci, Boca Raton, Cambridge University Press, Trends Biochem, Enzyme Box, New Series, Clarendon Press, Plenum Press, Springer Verlag, Nucleic Acids Res, Oxford University Press, Van Mieghem, Blackwell Scientific Publications, John Wiley, Secondary Plant Metabolites, Cell Biol, Pergamon Press, Royal Society, Van Laere New!
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This chapter fills in the necessary background on the biology and molecular biology of plants for what follows in later chapters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydroxycinnamate conjugates, invertase isoenzymes, sucrose synthase reaction, galactosyl branches, fructan oligosaccharides, plant primary cell wall, galactosyl donor, integral membrane protein complexes, granal membranes, fructan synthesis, appressed membranes, active defense responses, sucrose cleavage, organellar genes, seed storage protein genes, chemical defense compounds, avr genes, sugar nucleotide precursors, acetohydroxy acid synthase, pyranose ring form, hrp genes, carbonum race, shikonin production, photorespiratory pathway, homogenization medium Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Plant Physiol, Academic Press, New York, Plant Mol, New Phytol, San Diego, Plant Sci, Boca Raton, Cambridge University Press, Trends Biochem, Enzyme Box, New Series, Clarendon Press, Plenum Press, Springer Verlag, Nucleic Acids Res, Oxford University Press, Van Mieghem, Blackwell Scientific Publications, John Wiley, Secondary Plant Metabolites, Cell Biol, Pergamon Press, Royal Society, Van Laere New!
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- Carbohydrates, Volume 14 (Biochemistry of Plants) by Walter Stumpf on 10 pages
- Methods in Plant Biochemistry: Plant Phenolics by P. M. Dey on 4 pages
- Secondary Plant Products (Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Ser., V. 8) by E. A. Bell on 4 pages
- Biochemistry of Storage Carbohydrates in Green Plants by P. M. Dey on 4 pages
- Nitrogen Metabolism of Plants (Proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe) by K. Mengel on page 313, and page 315
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- Plant Cell Biology by William V Dashek on 5 pages
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