Abstract
MRS. ONSLOW'S book fills a decided gap in botanical literature. Since its first appearance, it has been considerably extended by a chapter on the plant acids, as well as by shorter sections on the derivatives of these bodies, waxes, essential oils, and also nucleic acid. Serious changes of form are scarcely possible in a text-book of this character, but an additional chapter, in many ways the most interesting in the book, has now been added on the possible interrelationships of the hexose sugars, the pentoses, and the pectic substances. The recent work on the oxidising systems of plants is also summarised in a convenient form.
Practical Plant Biochemistry.
Muriel Wheldale Onslow. Third edition. Pp. vii + 206. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1929.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Practical Plant Biochemistry . Nature 126, 721 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126721d0
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