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
Preface | |
Synthesis and Accumulation | |
Cereal Seed Storage Proteins | |
Legume Storage Proteins | |
Regulation of Seed Storage Protein Gene Expression | |
Starch Synthesis in Seeds | |
Lipid Biosynthesis in Developing Seeds | |
Cell and Molecular Biology of Seed Oil Bodies | |
Environmental Maternal Effects on Seed Quality and Germination | |
Ecology of Seed Banks | |
Dormancy Cycles | |
Modeling Weed Seed Germination | |
Germination of Weedy Root Parasites | |
Seed Germination and SeedBank Ecology in Halophytes | |
Allelopathy Autotoxicity and Germination | |
Seed Germination in Arid and Semiarid Regions | |
Mechanisms and Regulation of Mineral Nutrient Storage During Seed | |
From Seed Development to Germination | |
Regulatory Mechanisms in the Transition from Seed Development | |
Hormonal Regulation of Seed Development Dormancy and Germination | |
Water Relations in Seed Germination | |
Control of Seed Germination and Dormancy by the Gaseous Environment | |
Intracellular Transport and Secretion of Seed Proteins | |
Carbohydrate Degradation During Germination | |
Ecology of Germination | |
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