Basic and Applied Aspects of Seed Biology: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Seeds, Reading, 1995 (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

Heavy hardcover, 823 pages, NOT ex-lib. Owner's name else interior is clean and bright with unmarked text. Faint external age-spotting & dusty marks on page edges. Gently yellowed boards. Contents: 1 Development & Desiccation Tolerance [DT] of Natural/Artificial Seeds -- DT & Long Term Structural Stability; Immature Embryos of Maize: Sucrose, Raffinose, ABA-Sucrose Relation; DNA Status, Replication & Repair in DT & Germination; Protein Biotinylation: Development & Germination of Seeds; Harvest Time & Drying Effect: Beechnuts Dormancy & Storability; Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Storage Protein Synthesis: Early Embryogenesis; Matrix Choice for Encapsulating & Dehydrating Carrot Somatic Embryos: Rheology, Desorption & Diffusion Parameters; Somatic Embryoids Cryopreservation: Phoenix dactylifera; Seed World Patenting; From Encapsulated Somatic Embryo to Plantlet Regeneration; Raffinose Series Oligosaccharides & DT: Developing Viviparous Maize Embryos; Morphological and Physiological Changes Associated with Desiccation: Maize Embryos; Fertilization & Seed Formation of Cyclamen persicum Mill; Galactosyl Cyclitols & Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides: Relation to DT of Pea/Soyabean Seedlings; Maternal Effects on Callistephus chinensis Seed Yield/Quality; Influence of JA-Me & ABA on Induction of Somatic Embryogenesis: Medicago sativa L. Tissue Cultures; Bulnesia Seeds: Ultrastructural/Chemical Characterization; Acyltransferases Role in the Effect of ABA & Osmoticum on Oil Deposition; 2 Dormancy -- Phytochrome Family & Roles: Seed Germination Regulation; Molybdenum Effect; Moisture Content Controls the Effectiveness of Dormancy Breakage: Abies nordmanniana (Steven) Spach Seeds; Tomato Primary Dormancy; Seed Dormancy & Responses to Phytohormones: Nicotiana plumbaginifolia; Fagus Embryo Psychrolabile Dormancy: ABA Involvement; Abscisic Acid-Mediated Responses: Protein Kinases/Phosphatases; Sitka Spruce Seeds; Influence of Embryo Restraint: Dormancy Loss/Germination, Fraxinus excelsior Seeds; Molecular Changes: Douglas Fir Tree Seeds; Woody Seeds Pretreatment: Microbes/Enzymes; Pretreated Fagus sylvatica Seeds: Dormancy Breaking & Short-Term Storage; Germination Requirements & Dormancy: Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill; QSAR Modelling of Chemicals; Natural Far Red Irradiation & Weed Seed Persistence in the Soil; Ethephon Effect: Beechnuts; Endogenous Gibberellins: Beechnuts; Fagus sylvatica Seeds: Molecular Approach to ABA & GA3; Prunus avium L. Seeds: Controlled Stratification; Persistence of Rape Seeds; 3 Germination & Vigour -- Hydrotime Concept; Threshold Type Models: Statistical Perspective; Vigour Accumulation During Development/Maturation; Maize Axes: Ribosomal Protein mRNAs Translation; Cell Cycle Analysis: Tomato; Alpha-Type DNA Polymerase Activity Regulation: Maize; DNA Integrity/Synthesis: Sugar Beet; Ethanol: Seed Quality Indicator; Semipermeable Layer; Stress, Protein Biosynthesis & Loss of Vigour/Viability: Cereal Seed; Priming-Induced Nuclear Replication Activity: Pepper; Desiccation Tolerance Induction: Germinated Impatiens Seeds; Osmotic Relations & Cell Wall Acidification: Seed Axial Organs Elongation; Solid Matrix-Primed Endospermic/Nonendospermic Seeds: Ultrastructure; Seed Deterioration: Accumulation of Protein/Acetaldehyde Adducts; Plasma Membrane: Structural/Biochemical Changes; Storage Potential of Soyabean (Glycine max) Cultivars; Ageing: Sucrose, Cyclitols, Galactosyl Derivatives Changes; Germination of Amaranthus caudatus L: Methyl Jasmonate; Biochemical Events after Priming/Osmoconditioning; Sinapine Leakage: Brassica Quality Detection; Temperature & Germination Rate: Chenopodium album; Hydration in Germination: Quiescent Seeds; Cysteine Endopeptidase SH-EP in Germinated Vigna mungo; Pea Seeds Chilling Injury: Alleviation by Ethephon; Flow Cytometric Analysis of Sugar-Beet Seeds; [+3 other papers]; 4 Seed Ecophysiology [5 papers]; 5 Storage & Conservation [18 papers].…