Novel Approaches for Understanding Germination Control

QTL Analyses Dormancy is a quantitative trait, involving many genes and is influenced substantially by environmental factors. Within...

Role of ABA and Components of the ABA Signalling Pathway

(1) Promotion of Developmental Processes, Prevention of Precocious Germination and Induction of Dormancy During Seed Development Whether...

The Synthesis of Starch

Following the uptake of carbon into the amyloplast, starch synthesis proceeds variously via (i) plastidial phosphoglucomutase and plastidial...

Uptake of Carbon into Amyloplasts

The form in which carbon crosses the amyloplast membrane and enters into starch biosynthesis has been the subject of considerable debate. Categorical...

Production of Hexose Phosphates in the Cytosol

The circular pathway operating between sucrose and hexose phosphates is well established and has been intensively investigated (Figures 25.1...

Pathways of Heterotrophic Carbohydrate Metabolism

The Supply of Sucrose In photosynthetic and gluconeogenic tissues sucrose is predominantly exported from cells, most probably by facilitated...

Carbohydrate Metabolism in Plants

The yield from crop plants has been subject to constant improvement through conventional breeding and refinements in agricultural practice for...