RECENT ADVANCES IN PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Volume 34

Evolution of Metabolic Pathways

Edited by

Ragai Ibrahim
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada

 

Luc Varin
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada

 

 

Vincenzo De Luca
University of Montreal
Montreal, Canada

 

John T. Romeo
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida

 

 

ELSEIVER PRESS, NEW YORK AND LONDON

 

CONTENTS

The Role of Natural Products in Evolution.

Bruce B. Jarvis

The Evolution of Phenolics in Plants.

Helen A. Stafford

The Family of Chalcone Synthase-Related Proteins: Functional Diversity

and Evolution.

Joachim Schröder

Macrolide and Polyether Polyketides: Biosynthesis and Molecular

Diversity.

Youla S. Tsantrizos and Xian-Shu Yang

Biochemical, Molecular, Genetic, and Evolutionary Aspects of Defense-

Related Terpenoid Metabolism in Conifers.

Jörg Bohlmann, Jonathan Gershenzon and Sebastien Aubourg

Function and Evolution of Plant Cytochrome P450.

Rachel A. Kahn and Francis Durst

The Biosynthesis, Degradation, Transport and Possible Function of

Cyanogenic Glucosides.

Patrik R. Jones, Mette Dahl Andersen , John Strikart Nielsen, Peter

Bordier Høj, and Birger Lindberg Møller

Two-oxoacid-dependent Dioxygenases: Inefficient Enzymes or

Evolutionary Driving Force?.

Andy G. Prescott

Evolution of Acyltransferase Genes, Origin and Diversification of the

BAHD Superfamily of Acyltransferases Involved in Secondary

Metabolism.

Benoit St-Pierre and Vincenzo De Luca

Glycosyltransferases Involved in Plant Secondary Metabolism.

Thomas Vogt

The Methyltransferase Gene Superfamily: A Tree with Multiple Branches.

Ragai K. Ibrahim and Ingrid Muzac

Brassinosteroids - Structures, Analysis and Synthesis.

Jürgen Schmidt, Barbara Spengler, Brunhilde Voigt and Günter Adam

Recent Advances in Molecular Genetic Studies of the Functions of

Brassinolide, a Steroid Hormone in Plants.

Zhi-Yong Wang and Joanne Chory 

Plant Soluble Sulfotransferases: Structural and Functional Similarity

with Mammalian Enzymes.

Frédéric Marsolais, Satinder Kaur Gidda, Jason Boyd, and Luc Varin