Practical Plant Biochemistry

Practical Biochemistry

decorate his pages-Stearne, Dun, Petty, Cheyne, Graves, Stokes, Corrigan, all of Nvhom have earned undying fame. Professor Widdess gives short and sympathetic accounts of the lives and labours of all of these and several more. One of the most detailed of these concerns Sir Patrick Dun, and the strange history of his bequest to the College. It is interesting to note the long and friendly associa...

Plant Biochemistry

has perpetuated the excellent publishing record of the past in this most recent edition. I am happy to state the affirmative. Since the previous edition was published in 1953, there was a tremendous amount of updating necessary, especially in terminology. This has been done quite well. A new chapter has been added on topographic anatomy and each section has been extensively revised or rewritten...

Practical Clinical Biochemistry

Practical Methods in Biochemistry

Update on Biochemistry of Plant Volatiles Biochemistry of Plant Volatiles

Plants have a penchant for perfuming the atmosphere around them. Since antiquity it has been known that both floral and vegetative parts of many species emit substances with distinctive smells. The discovery of the gaseous hormone ethylene 70 years ago brought the realization that at least some of the compounds emitted may have physiological significance without any distinctive smell to humans....