Author: R. W. Stoddart
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: polysaccharides, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1984-04-01
List price: $206.50
ISBN-10: 0856648078
ISBN-13: 9780856648076

Author: Haigler
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: cellulose, biodegradation, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1990-12-20
List price: $344.95
ISBN-10: 0824783875
ISBN-13: 9780824783877

A gathering of articles bringing together knowledge of both the synthesis and degradation of a pervasive biological substance, cellulose. Topics include native cellulose; particle rosettes and terminal globules; microfibril biogenesis; synthesis in Acetobacter xylinum ; biodegradation measurement; e

Author: David Morgan
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Keywords: insects, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2004-04-29
List price: $76.00
ISBN-10: 0854046917
ISBN-13: 9780854046911

The chemical study of insects has been growing for four decades, and with it an interest in how insects make their pheromones, hormones, defensive secretions, venoms, pigments and surface coverings. By investigating the biosynthesis of insects, one can gain a greater insight into the structure and function of insect compounds, into ways of disrupting biosynthetic reactions in pest species and how these pathways evolved. The first textbook of its kind, Biosynthesis in Insects amalgamates previously fragmented information and recent exciting developments in the field to provide a unique, conci

Author: R.B. Herbert
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: second, metabolites, secondary, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1989-03-31
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 0412277204
ISBN-13: 9780412277207

Secondary metabolites are substances produced chiefly by micro-organisms and plants. They exhibit a wide range of biological activities and include antibiotics, such as the pencillins, and other medicinals, such as morphine. An understanding of the way these substances are made in vivo, that is to say their biosynthesis, is essential to anyone studying or working with compounds isolated from natural sources. This volume provides an account of the main experimental evidence on which current biosynthetic knowledge is based. Two introductory chapters provide the necessary background information,

Author: Jordon
Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science Div
Keywords: biochemistry, comprehensive, new, tetrapyrroles, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1991-01
List price: $117.25
ISBN-10: 0444892850
ISBN-13: 9780444892850

The study of the structure and function of tetrapyrrolic compounds has excited the interests of organic chemists, biochemists, botanists and biologists for more than a hundred years. Scientific analysis began with the first descriptions of naturally occurring porphyrins, and progress was made towards understanding the structure of chlorophyll. This was followed by the use of newly available isotopes of carbon and nitrogen to investigate the formation of porphyrins in biological systems. Further discoveries led to the elucidation of the atoms in protoporphyrin IX, made possible by the applicati

Author: T A Geissman
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Keywords: reports, periodical, specialist, volume, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1973-01-01
List price: $563.00
ISBN-10: 0851865135
ISBN-13: 9780851865133

Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry coul

Author: David Morgan
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Keywords: advanced, insects, biosynthesis
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2010-08-26
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 1847558089
ISBN-13: 9781847558084

The secondary metabolites of insects include the important subjects of pheromones, hormones, defensive secretions, cuticular hydrocarbons and metabolites derived from plants. All these subjects have been growing over the past four decades, and are reaching a state of maturity now, where we can begin to see patterns in them and know in which part of the insect body they are produced. Other topics include pigments, luciferin and volicitin. Though aspects of these subjects have been treated in monographs and reviews, there was not, until the first edition of "Biosynthesis in Insects" any book tha