DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/78fcc5/plant_polysacchari) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Plant Polysaccharides" to their offering.
The Plant Polysaccharides text is now available. This timely volume provides comprehensive coverage of these most important compounds which are a vital part of all plants' structure, and in energy storage systems.
Commencing with a section covering cell wall composition, the book then provides wide coverage of aspects including polysaccharide biosynthesis, supra-molecular structure, and bioengineering. A final section of the book deals with the exploitation of nanoscale phenomena and biological properties of plant polysaccharides, including chapters on their relevance in food ingredient design, dental implant coatings and their properties as anti-cancer agents.
Who Should Read this Text?:
Edited by one of the major research figures in the field, with contributions from many well known and respected workers in the area, Plant Polysaccharides is a volume of great interest to plant scientists including cell and molecular biologists, biochemists and structural biologists.
Development personnel involved in food ingredient and pharmaceutical research will also find much of interest. Libraries in all universities and research establishments teaching and researching in life sciences, nutrition, food science and pharmacology should have copies of this important volume on their shelves.
Key Topics Covered:
- Cell Wall Polysaccharide Composition and Covalent Crosslinking (Stephen C. Fry)
- Dissection of Plant Cell Walls by High-throughput Methods (Staffan Persson, Iben Srensen, Isabel Moller, William Willats and Markus Pauly)
- Approaches to Chemical Synthesis of Pectic Oligosaccharides (Sergey A. Nepogodiev, Robert A. Field and Iben Damager)
- Annotating Carbohydrate-active Enzymes in Plant Genomes: Present Challenges (Pedro M. Coutinho and Bernard Henrissat)
- Biosynthesis of Plant Cell Wall and Related Polysaccharides by Enzymes of the GT2 and GT48 Families (Bruce A. Stone, Andrew K. Jacobs, Maria Hrmova, Rachel A. Burton and Geoffrey B. Fincher)
- Glycosyltransferases of the GT8 Family (Yanbin Yin, Debra Mohnen, Ivana Gelineo-Albersheim, Ying Xu and Michael G. Hahn )
- Genes and Enzymes of the GT31 Family: Towards Unravelling the Function(s) of the Plant Glycosyltransferase Family Members (Jack Egelund, Miriam Ellis, Monika Doblin, Yongmei Qu and Antony Bacic)
- Glycosyltransferases of the GT34 and GT37 Families (Kenneth Keegstra and David Cavalier)
- Glycosyltransferases of the GT43 Family (Nadine Anders and Paul Dupree)
- Glycosyltransferases of the GT47 Family (Naomi Geshi, Jesper Harholt, Yumiko Sakuragi, Jacob Krger Jensen and Henrik Vibe Scheller)
- The Plant Glycosyltransferase Family GT64: in Search of a Function (Ellinor Edvardsson, Sunil Kumar Singh, Min-Soo Yun, Agata Mansfeld, Marie-Theres Hauser and Alan Marchant)
- Glycosyltransferases of the GT77 Family (Bent Larsen Petersen, Kirsten Faber and Peter Ulvskov)
- Hydroxyproline-rich Glycoproteins: Form and Function (Marcia J. Kieliszewski, Derek T.A. Lamport, Li Tan and Maura C. Canno)
- Plant Cell Wall Biology: Polysaccharides in Architectural and Developmental Contexts (Maureen C. McCann and J. Paul Knox)
- Enzymatic Modification of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides (Jens bro, Takahisa Hayashi and Jrn Dalgaard Mikkelsen)
- Production of Heterologous Storage Polysaccharides in Potato Plants (Xing-Feng Huang, Jean-Paul Vincken, Richard G.F. Visser and Luisa M. Trindade)
- Glycan Engineering in Transgenic Plant (Muriel Bardor, Jos A. Cremata and Patrice Lerouge)
- Polysaccharide Nanobiotechnology: A Case Study of Dental Implant Coating (Marco Morra, Clara Cassinelli, Giovanna Cascardo, Hanna Kokkonen, Juha Tuukkanen, Claudio Della Volpe, Stefano Siboni, Giordano Segatta, Marco Brugnara and Giacomo Ceccone)
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