By National Academy of Sciences

Biographical Memoirs is sequence of essays containing the existence histories and chosen bibliographies of deceased individuals of the nationwide Academy of Sciences. The sequence presents a checklist of the lifestyles and paintings of a few of the main exceptional leaders within the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted through their colleagues and friends. They shape a biographical background of technological know-how in America--an very important a part of our nation's contribution to the highbrow historical past of the area.

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With B. Axelrod. Mechanisms of carbohydrate breakdown in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 7:267-298. 1957 The glyoxylate cycle as a stage in the conversion of fat to carbohydrate in castor beans. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 26:531-537. With H. L. Kornberg. A mechanism of conversion of fat to carbohydrate in the castor bean. Nature 180:35. 1960 With T. ap Rees. Pentose phosphate pathways as a major component of induced respiration in carrot and potato slices. Plant Physiol. 35:839-847. HARRY BEEVERS 33 1961 Metabolic production of sucrose from fat.

Biol. Chem. 236:988-995. 1964 With A. Oaks. The glyoxylate cycle in maize scutellum. Plant Physiol. 39:431-434. 1967 With R. W. Breidenbach. Association of the glyoxylate cycle enzymes in a novel subcellular particle from castor bean endosperm. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 27:462-469. 1970 With B. P. Gerhardt. Developmental studies on glyoxysomes in Ricinus endosperm. J. Cell Biol. 44:94-106. 1971 With A. H. C. Huang. Isolation of microbodies from plant tissues. Plant Physiol. 48:637-641. 1972 With J.

Isolation of intact plastids from a range of plant tissues. Plant Physiol. 53:870-874. 34 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1975 With T. Kagawa. The development of microbodies (glyoxysomes and leaf peroxisomes) in cotyledons of germinating watermelon seedlings. Plant Physiol. 55:258-264. 1979 With M. Nishimura. Hydrolysis of protein in vacuoles isolated from higher plant tissue. Nature 277:412-413. With M. Nishimura. Subcellular distribution of gluconeogenetic enzymes in germinating castor bean endosperm. Plant Physiol.

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