Carbohydrate reserves in plants : synthesis and regulation /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Elsevier, 2000.
Description:viii, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Developments in crop science. 26
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4398144
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Other authors / contributors:Gupta, Anil Kumar.
Narinder Kaur.
ISBN:0444502696 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Carbon fixation, sucrose synthesis and its transport to storage tissue
  • The physiology of sucrose storage in sugarcane
  • Sucrose accumulation and synthesis in sugar beet
  • Starch synthesis and grain filling in wheat
  • Starch synthesis and grain filling in rice
  • Starch synthesis in maize
  • Grain filling and starch synthesis in barley
  • Tuber filling and starch synthesis in potato
  • Regulation of starch synthesis in transgenic plants
  • Role of fructans redistributed from vegetative tissues in grain filling of wheat and barley
  • Fructan metabolism in Jerusalem artichoke and chicory
  • Fructan synthesis in starch-storing tissue expressing a Bacillus Sac B gene
  • Enzymology of fructan metabolism in grasses
  • Galactomannans as the reserve carbohydrate in legume seeds
  • Carbohydrates in trees
  • Sugar alcohols as carbohydrate reserves in some higher plants