Seed Development and GerminationJaime Kigel 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 |
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