Seed Development and Germination

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Jaime Kigel
CRC Press, Jan 4, 1995 - Science - 872 pages
This text is intended for plant physiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, geneticists, horticulturalists, agromnomists and botanists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines. It integrates advances in the diverse and rapidly-expanding field of seed science, from ecological and demographic aspects of seed production, dispersal and germination, to the molecular biology of seed development. The book offers a broad, multidisciplinary approach that covers both theoretical and applied knowledge.
 

Contents

Jack Preiss Department of Biochemistry Michigan State University East Lansing
22
Synthesis and Accumulation
25
Cereal Seed Storage Proteins
45
Legume Storage Proteins
73
Regulation of Seed Storage Protein Gene Expression
103
Starch Synthesis in Seeds
139
Lipid Biosynthesis in Developing Seeds
169
Mechanisms and Regulation of Mineral Nutrient Storage During Seed
215
Ecology of Seed Banks
507
Dormancy Cycles
529
Modeling Weed Seed Germination
545
Orit Shaul Department of Plant Genetics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot
564
Germination of Weedy Root Parasites
567
Seed Germination and SeedBank Ecology in Halophytes
599
Allelopathy Autotoxicity and Germination
629
Seed Germination in Arid and Semiarid Regions
645

From Seed Development to Germination
237
Regulatory Mechanisms in the Transition from Seed Development
273
Hormonal Regulation of Seed Development Dormancy and Germination
333
Water Relations in Seed Germination
351
Control of Seed Germination and Dormancy by the Gaseous Environment
397
Intracellular Transport and Secretion of Seed Proteins
425
Carbohydrate Degradation During Germination
447
Ecology of Germination
475
Environmental Maternal Effects on Seed Quality and Germination
491
Deteriorative Changes Associated with the Loss of Viability of Stored
701
The Implications of SeedAssociated Mycoflora During Storage
747
Biochemical Processes During the Osmopriming of Seeds
767
Improving Protein Quality in Seeds
791
Synthesis and Accumulation of the Essential Amino Acids Lysine
811
A Model for the Development of
833
Index
847
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