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The Biochemistry of Plants, a Comprehensive Treatise
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BOOK REVIEW
lacks unity but includes so much information that all laboratories interested in fungal physiology and, of course, in phytopathology should acquire it.
V. DEMOULIN Institut de Botanique Universite de Liege Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liege Belgium
The Biochemistry of Plants, a Comprehensive Treatise: Edited by P. K. Stumpf and E. E. Conn. Vol. 15, Molecular Biology: Edited by A. Marcus. Academic Press. 1989. 707+xiv pp. ISBN 0-12675415-2.
the field and it is supported by what appears to be an exhaustive bibliography. The editing is remarkable. Though each chapter is authored by a different scientist, the book can be read as if it were written by the same person, or the same group. The chapters are abundantly illustrated with very clear and informative figures, tables and photographs. It would be dull and presumptuous to criticize the book in detail. Its readers are fully aware of the state-of-the-art knowledge in whatever field is covered and both specialists and non-specialists can find food for thought and substance for lectures in this volume. Like the Methods in Enzymology series, this Comprehensive Treatise is a must in (plant) biochemistry research departments. JACQUES AGHION
The editors-in-chief underline that when, in 1950, a plant biochemistry book appeared, it contained 490 pages and, in 1980, their own Comprehensive Treatise had 4670 pages. Since then the Comprehensive Treatise has been updated, but it is far from finished. The present volume deals with molecular biology, i.e. plant genome expression, chloroplast and mitochondrial genome and protein synthesis in chloroplasts and in seeds. Specific and nonspecific plant proteins are described, such as thaumatins (sweet proteins), cytoskeletal proteins, calmodulin and glycoproteins. Finally the editor devotes three chapters to plant pathology (viroids, viruses, tumours) and one to genetic manipulations of plant cells. Every one of these chapters is written by an international authority in
Institut de Botanique Universit~ de Liege Sart Tilman 4000 Liege Belgium
BOOK REVIEW
lacks unity but includes so much information that all laboratories interested in fungal physiology and, of course, in phytopathology should acquire it.
V. DEMOULIN Institut de Botanique Universite de Liege Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liege Belgium
The Biochemistry of Plants, a Comprehensive Treatise: Edited by P. K. Stumpf and E. E. Conn. Vol. 15, Molecular Biology: Edited by A. Marcus. Academic Press. 1989. 707+xiv pp. ISBN 0-12675415-2.
the field and it is supported by what appears to be an exhaustive bibliography. The editing is remarkable. Though each chapter is authored by a different scientist, the book can be read as if it were written by the same person, or the same group. The chapters are abundantly illustrated with very clear and informative figures, tables and photographs. It would be dull and presumptuous to criticize the book in detail. Its readers are fully aware of the state-of-the-art knowledge in whatever field is covered and both specialists and non-specialists can find food for thought and substance for lectures in this volume. Like the Methods in Enzymology series, this Comprehensive Treatise is a must in (plant) biochemistry research departments. JACQUES AGHION
The editors-in-chief underline that when, in 1950, a plant biochemistry book appeared, it contained 490 pages and, in 1980, their own Comprehensive Treatise had 4670 pages. Since then the Comprehensive Treatise has been updated, but it is far from finished. The present volume deals with molecular biology, i.e. plant genome expression, chloroplast and mitochondrial genome and protein synthesis in chloroplasts and in seeds. Specific and nonspecific plant proteins are described, such as thaumatins (sweet proteins), cytoskeletal proteins, calmodulin and glycoproteins. Finally the editor devotes three chapters to plant pathology (viroids, viruses, tumours) and one to genetic manipulations of plant cells. Every one of these chapters is written by an international authority in
Institut de Botanique Universit~ de Liege Sart Tilman 4000 Liege Belgium