4 Composition of Plant Cuticular Waxes
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 23: Biology of the Plant Cuticle
Reinhard Jetter,
Ljerka Kunst,
A. Lacey Samuels,
Reinhard Jetter
Departments of Botany and Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 3510-6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorLjerka Kunst
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorA. Lacey Samuels
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorReinhard Jetter,
Ljerka Kunst,
A. Lacey Samuels,
Reinhard Jetter
Departments of Botany and Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 3510-6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorLjerka Kunst
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorA. Lacey Samuels
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorThis article was originally published in 2006 in Biology of the Plant Cuticle, Volume 23 (ISBN 9781405132688) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Markus Riederer and Caroline Müller. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Methods Used for the Chemical Analysis of Plant Cuticular Waxes
- Chemical Profiles of Plant Cuticular Waxes
- Spontaneous Reactions of Cuticular Wax Constituents
- Quantitative Composition of Cuticular Waxes
- Dynamics of Wax Composition
- Arrangement of Plant Cuticular Waxes
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