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PLANT TAXONOMY 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



37 



A BRIEF HISTORY OF MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 

 FIELD 37 



INTRODUCTION TO BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS 41 



Some preliminary considerations of the applica- 

 tions OF biochemistry to SYSTEMATICS 48 



SEROLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS 67 



AMINO ACIDS 



Systematic studies involving amino acids 96 



FATTY ACIDS 



Fatty acid biosynthesis 123 



CARBOHYDRATES 



91 



119 



135 



Simple sugars (a partial list only) 137 



Sugar alcohols (acyclic polyhydric alcohols) 139 



Inositol and related cyclic alcohols l4l 



Oligosaccharides l43 



Polysaccharides 150 



