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Control Processes in the Mobilization of Stored Reserves

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Physiology and Biochemistry of Seeds in Relation to Germination

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By far the most work on the control of enzymes responsible for the mobilization of stored reserves has been carried out on cereal grains and some of the possible reasons for the preferential use of this material should become clear in this chapter. Discussion of this topic inevitably involves a consideration of the effects of plant hormones on cell metabolism and, more specifically, of their actions in non-growing storage tissue. The reason for this is that in the best-understood system — the cereal grain — mobilization of food reserves is quite clearly under hormonal control. The major part of this chapter is therefore devoted to regulation in these grains, especially barley and wheat, but we conclude with an account of control processes in other seeds.

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Bewley, J.D., Black, M. (1978). Control Processes in the Mobilization of Stored Reserves. In: Physiology and Biochemistry of Seeds in Relation to Germination. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66668-1_7

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