Carbohydrate reserves in plants : synthesis and regulation /
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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 |
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