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

R.H. Ellis; Michael Black; A.J. Murdoch; T.D. Hong

ISBN 10: 0792343638 / ISBN 13: 9780792343639

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

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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].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basic and Applied Aspects of Seed Biology: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Seeds, Reading, 1995 (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792343638
• ISBN 13: 9780792343639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Fifth International Workshop on Seeds was held at the University of Reading, UK, from 10 to 15 September, 1995. Some 230 seed scientists, from a wide range of disciplines (botanists, biochemists, ecologists, agriculturalists, foresters, and commercial seedsmen), from 31 countries (Europe, the Americas, and Asia) participated in the workshop. A large number of oral and poster presentations was made during the workshop and we are pleased to publish so many of them in these Proceedings. The papers herein are listed by the sessions in which they were presented but, as is often the case, many papers cover a broader range of topics than the session titles imply. For seed physiologists, ecologists, and technologists, this book collates much of the current research on seeds.

Review

` ... very well written and illustrated. This book can be recommended for the practical workers, scientist and student conderned with seed and with seed testing.'
Journal of Plant Physiology, 152 (1998)