Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

Khan AA, Xuelin H, Guangwen Z, Prusinski J. In: F Jiarui, AA Khan, eds. Advances in the Science and Technology of Seeds. New Yo ...

Nikolaeva MG. Physiology of Deep Dormancy in Seeds (translated from the Russian by Z Shapiro). Jerusalem: Israel Program for Sc ...

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9 Senescence in Plants and Crops Lola Peñarrubia and Joaquín Moreno University of Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain 181 I. IN ...

ward other parts of the plant, be these either growing organs, such as fruits or young leaves, or special- ized storage tissues, ...

Leopold [1] distinguishes four possible patterns of senescence in different plants: Senescence of the whole plant at the end of ...

may delay senescence of the whole plant. This fact has been interpreted in diverse ways, the most ac- cepted idea being that hor ...

As exhaustive mutational analysis in Arabidopsishas failed to provide any mutants that globally and completely block the senesce ...

shows the gel-phase domains as intramembranous particle-free regions that increase in size and number as senescence progresses [ ...

sue mitochondria and apparently uses the same mechanism of proton translocation via fatty acid recycling [73], thereby regulatin ...

(rRNA), which is the most abundant cellular RNA in both the chloroplast and cytosol, and a major frac- tion of mRNAs that decay ...

the implication of vacuolar or peroxisomal activities in hydrolysis of proteins from other organelles seems doubtful, at least t ...

catalases, peroxidases, and glutathione reductases, are present in plant cells to prevent the damage by these toxic species [153 ...

a profusion of secondary effects. Among them, Ca^2 may influence directly phospholipase D and phos- phatidic acid phosphatase a ...

plast genomes. In contrast to its mRNA, protein levels of ERD1, one of these Clp-like protease subunits, decline during senescen ...

are said to be at the compensation point, and those leaves are hypothesized to be targeted to senesce [204]. In this regard, the ...

Information on the secondary signals that propagate and diversify senescence responses inside the cell acting at the gene expres ...

If it is necessary to use exclusively biochemical assays, a combination of different parameters may be the best solution for pre ...

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