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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148741803321

Titolo

Plant specialized metabolism : genomics, biochemistry, and biological functions / / edited by Gen-ichiro Arimura, Tokyo Universtiy of Science, Tokyo, Japan, and Massimo Maffei, University of Turin, Torino, Italy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-35337-7

1-315-37045-X

1-4987-2629-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

572/.42

Soggetti

Plants - Metabolism

Plant metabolites - Synthesis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction to plant specialized metabolism / Gen-ichiro Arimura and Massimo Maffei -- Chapter 2. Site of synthesis of specialized metabolites / Massimo Maffei -- Chapter 3. Biodiversity and chemotaxonomic significance of specialized metabolites / Francesca Barbero and Massimo Maffei -- Chapter 4. Biosynthesis and roles of salicaceae salicylates / Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto and Virpi Virjamo -- Chapter 5. Alkaloid biosynthesis and regulation in plants / Tsubasa Shoji -- Chapter 6. Pinaceae alkaloids / Virpi Virjamo and Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto -- Chapter 7. Biosynthesis, regulation, and significance of cyanogenic glucosides / Lasse Janniche Nielsen and 5 others -- Chapter 8. Glucosinolate biosynthesis and funcitional roles / Tomohiro Kakizaki -- Chapter 9. Biosynthesis and regulation of plant volatiles and their functional roles in ecosystem interactions and global environmental changes / Gin-ichiro Arimura, Kenji Matsua, Takao Koeduka, and Jarmo K. Holopainen -- Chapter 10. Microbial volatiles and their biotechnological applications / Birgit Piechulla and Marie Chantal Lemfack -- Chapter 11. Volatile glycosulation : a story of glycosyltransferase for volatiles: glycosylation determining the



boundary of volatile and nonvolatile specialized metabolites / Eiichiro Ono and Toshiyuki Ohnishi -- Chapter 12. Plant secondary metabolites as an information channel mediating community-wide interactions / Andre Kessler and Kaori Shiojiri -- Chapter 13. Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology of plant secondary metabolism / Dae-Kyun Ro, Yang Qu, and Moonhyuk Kwon.