Plant Biopolymer Science
Subtitle: Food and Non-Food Applications (Royal Society of Chemistry Special Publication)
Contributors: D. Renard (Editor); Della Valle (Editor); Y. Popineau (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Published: May 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780854048564
Subjects: Biochemistry; Botany & plant sciences; Polymer chemistry; Plant polymers; Congresses; Science/Mathematics; Amino Acids; Plant Biochemistry; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Life Sciences - Botany; Flowers; Agriculture - General; Chemistry - General; Science / Botany; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Biopolymers
First sentence: Synthases of all polymers containing (14)-linked glucosyl, mannosyl and xylosyl residues have overcome a substrate-orientation problem in catalysis because this particular linkage requires that each of these sugar units be inverted nearly 180° with respect to its neighbors.