Plant Chemosystematics /
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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London ; Orlando :
Academic Press,
1984,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction.
- The biochemical background.
- Taxonomic principles.
- Historical perspective.
- Philosophical and pragmatic rationale.
- Part II. Secondary Metabolites.
- Plant scents and odours.
- Alkaloids and other plant toxins.
- Plan pigments.
- Hidden metabolites.
- Environmental and genetic variability.
- Application of chemistry at the infraspecific level.
- Application of chemistry at the specific and generic level.
- Application of chemistry at the familial level.
- Chemical documentation of hybridization.
- Comparative biosynthetic and metabolic pathways.
- Phytoalexin induction.
- The handling of chemical data.
- Part III. Macromolecular approaches.
- Proteins.
- Nucleic acids.
- Polysaccharides.
- Palaeobiochemistry.
- Epilogue and future perspectives.
- Bibliography.
- Index of plant genera and species.
- Subject index.