{"title":"Investigating plant lipid biopolymers","authors":"Antonio Heredia, Antonio Matas, Eva Dominguez","doi":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00086-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents a review of the biological importance and occurrence of plant cutin, the main lipid biopolymer in higher plants. Its chemical composition and structure are reviewed and a short laboratory practical exercise on the extraction, purification and qualitative analysis of fruit cutin is presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 1","pages":"Pages 50-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00086-2","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biochemical education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307441299000862","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents a review of the biological importance and occurrence of plant cutin, the main lipid biopolymer in higher plants. Its chemical composition and structure are reviewed and a short laboratory practical exercise on the extraction, purification and qualitative analysis of fruit cutin is presented.