A REVIEW ON USE OF BIOCHEMICAL METHOD LIKE ISOZYMES IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS

Plant taxonomy and systematics are two sides of the same coin, which are used to identify and describe organisms. Biochemical methods are of the most important tool on which forms the basis for the development of field like the molecular biology. Isozyme are the different molecular forms of enzymes showing the same substrate specificity. The isozyme finds its application not only in the early colonizing plants viz., algae, fungi, bryophytes, pteridophytes and gymnosperms but also in the highly evolved flowering plants. However the use of Isozymes in plant systematics is highly appreciable. The Isozymes helps in plant systematics by suggesting the circumscription of the taxon namely, genus, species, varieties, etc