ENGLISH

Evolution of Metabolic Pathways

By John T. Romeo , Ragal Ibrahim , Luc Varin and Vincenzo De Luca (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Pergamon
Year
2000
ISBN
9780080438603, 0080438601, 2076315500
Open Library ID
OL18217174M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27338283 bytes)
Series
Recent advances in phytochemistry 34
Edition
1st ed
Pages
1-467\482
Topic
Biology
Library
duansci.com
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

The past decade has seen major advances in the cloning of genes encoding enzymes of plant secondary metabolism. This has been further enhanced by the recent project on the sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome. These developments provide the molecular genetic basis to address the question of the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways . This volume provides in-depth reviews of our current knowledge on the evolutionary origin of plant secondary metabolites and the enzymes involved in their biosynthesis. The chapters cover five major topics: 1. Role of secondary metabolites in evolution; 2. Evolutionary origins of polyketides and terpenes; 3. Roles of oxidative reactions in the evolution of secondary metabolism; 4. Evolutionary origin of substitution reactions: acylation, glycosylation and methylation; and 5. Biochemistry and molecular biology of brassinosteroids.

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