
Latex, Laticifers and Their Molecular Components: From Functions to Possible Applications
Description
Key Features
- Highlights new advances on physiology and structure of laticifers
- Focuses on the latest developments in latex-borne defense against herbivores and pathogens
- Includes the latest information on the diversity of molecules produced by different latex-bearing plants and a wide range of their activities and applications
Readership
University lecturers and professors; researchers (in such fields as plant sciences, agriculture, pharmacy, medicine); governmental or international organizations (such as FAO); officers involved in food, industrial or biotechnology regulation; university students, High School teachers; science journalists; farmer organizations
Table of Contents
1. Plant latex and latex-borne defense
Marcio Viana Ramosa, Cléverson Diniz Teixeira de Freitas, Francimauro Sousa Morais, Erika Prado, Maria Camila Medina and Diego Demarco
2. Structural diversity and distribution of laticifers
Simone Padua Teixeira, Cristina Ribeiro Marinho and Flavia Maria Leme
3. Plant latex proteins and their functions
Oskar Musidlak, Sophia Bałdysz, Michalina Krakowiak, Robert Nawrot
4. Low-molecular compounds of latex-bearing plants and their biosynthesis
Peng Huang, Mengshan Sun, Jianguo Zeng
5. Pharmacologically active compounds from latex-bearing plants
Alicja Warowicka, Robert Nawrot, Anna Goździcka-Józefiak
6. Latex proteins and enzymes involved in terpenoid biosynthesis of selected Euphorbia species: E. kansui Liou and E. helioscopia L.
Xueyan Zhao, Xia Cai
7. Biochemical composition of Hevea brasiliensis latex: a focus on the protein, lipid, carbohydrate and mineral contents
Céline Bottier
Product details
- No. of pages: 254
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: January 11, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081029954
- eBook ISBN: 9780081029961
About the Serial Volume Editor
Robert Nawrot

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