Annals of Botany 94/3, © Annals of Botany Company 2004; all rights reserved
Advances in pectin and pectinase research.
Voragen F, Schols H and Visser R. eds. 2003. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
145 (hardback). 491 pp.
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Two indisputable features distinguish plants from animals one is the chloroplast, the other the cell wall. This volume is directed to the newest information we have on the cell wall, the major polysaccharide component, pectin, and the ways that pectins can be changed.
A summary of 36 papers presented at the Second International Symposium on Pectins and Pectinases (2001), this book describes aspects of synthesis, chemical constitution, properties and immunological identification of pectins with the molecular genetics, structure and function