The Plant Seed

The Plant Seed: Development, Preservation, and Germination presents papers delivered on the symposium on plant seed, held at the University of Minnesota in 1978.
The volume discusses the development, preservation, and germination of the plant seed. The topics of this compendium focus on various aspects of the plant seed. The first group of papers describes genetic, hormonal, and molecular events associated with seed development, with particular attention given to the molecular biology of storage protein formation; the second group of papers examines the physiological and genetic aspects of germplasm preservation. The final group of papers examines the molecular aspects of seed germination.
The book will be of interest to botanists, biologists, plant breeders, plant physiologists, plant pathologists, and geneticists.

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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Section I Seed Development
The Major Storage Protein of French Bean Seeds: Characterization in Vivo and Translation in Vitro
Molecular Basis of Zein Protein Synthesis in Maize Endosperm
The Mechanism of Zein Synthesis and Deposition in Protein Bodies of Maize Endosperm
Isolation and Characterization of Messenger RNAs that Code for the Subunits of Soybean Seed Protein
Regulatory Variant and Mutant Alleles in Higher Organisms and Their Possible Origin via Chromosomal Breaks
Role of Stored Messenger RNA in Late Embryo Development and Germination
Hormonal Control of Storage Protein Synthesis in Phaseolus vulgaris
Section II Seed Preservation
Physiological and Other Aspects of Seed Preservation
Germplasm Preservation: The Basis of Future Feast or Famine: Genetic Resources of Maize-An Example
Section III Seed Germination
Nucleotide Metabolism and the Germination of Seed Embryonic Axes
Dormancy Breaking by Hormones and Other Chemicals-Action at the Molecular Level
Hormonal Control of Endosperm Function during Germination
Index