Advances in pectin and pectinase research. * Voragen F, Schols H and Visser R. eds. 2003. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. {euro}145 (hardback). 491 pp.

Two indisputable features distinguish plants from animals –one is the chloroplast, the other the cell wall. This volumeis directed to the newest information we have on the cell wall,the major polysaccharide component, pectin, and the ways thatpectins can be changed. A summary of 36 papers presented at the Second InternationalSymposium on Pectins and Pectinases (2001), this book describesaspects of synthesis, chemical constitution, properties andimmunological identification of pectins with the molecular genetics,structure and function