Plant Biochemistry

Plant Biochemistry provides students and researchers in plant sciences with a concise general account of plant biochemistry. The edited format allows recognized experts in plant biochemistry to contribute chapters on their special topics. 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.

The coverage of the subject is divided into four sections

The plant cell-describing both molecular components and functionPrimary metabolism-including the pathways of carbohydrate, lipid, nitrogen, nucleic acid and protein metabolism as well as gene regulationSpecial metabolism-chapters on phenolics, isoprenoids and secondary nitrogen compoundsThe plant and the environment-discussions of pathology, ecology and biotechnology at the molecular level

The Plant, The Cell and Its Molecular Components
Photosynthesis
Carbohydrate Metabolism: Primary Metabolism of Monosaccharides
Carbohydrate Metabolism: Structural Carbohydrates
Plant Lipid Metabolism
Primary Nitrogen Metabolism
Nucleic Acids and Proteins
Regulation of Gene Expression in Plants
Phenolic Metabolism
Isoprenoid Metabolism
Special Nitrogen Metabolism
Biochemical Plant Pathology
Biochemical Plant Ecology
Plant Cell Biotechnology