Developments in Crop Science
Available online 20 April 2007.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-519X(00)80001-XPublisher Summary
This chapter presents preface to the book that focuses on plant carbohydrates. Plant carbohydrate metabolism in itself has emerged as a distinct field in Biochemistry. The long personal experience of the editors in the area of plant carbohydrates led them to an idea of consolidating the whole available information on major plant crops in this field at a single place. This compilation not only benefits the basic plant biochemists and physiologists but also the agricultural scientists in general. The chapter discusses sucrose metabolism and its regulation and transport; accumulation of starch in grains of important cereal crops like wheat, rice maize and barley; sucrose storing crops; the role of fructans accumulated in stem internodes to grain filling in wheat and barley; sugar alcohol; carbohydrates of trees; and starch synthesis in transgenic plants and incorporation of SacB gene in certain plants. An attempt has been made to include all major crops and main carbohydrate reserve polymers in this book.
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