Plant Storage Proteins

1995 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Shewry
Keyword(s):  
Storage Proteins ◽  
Plant Storage

Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Phosphorylation of Plant Storage Proteins

1998 ◽  
pp. 136-140
Author(s):  
T. Chardot ◽  
P. H. Benetti ◽  
S. I. Kim ◽  
D. Fouques ◽  
M. C. Ralet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Storage Proteins ◽  
Enzymatic Phosphorylation ◽  
Plant Storage

Structures of plant storage proteins and their functions

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danji Fukushima
Keyword(s):  
Storage Proteins ◽  
Plant Storage

Transcriptional control of plant storage protein genes

1993 ◽  
Vol 342 (1301) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Transcriptional Control ◽  
Storage Proteins ◽  
Promoter Deletion Analysis ◽  
Protein Dna Interactions ◽  
Plant Storage

The accumulation of plant storage proteins is controlled primarily by the transcriptional activation of their genes. Two classes of storage proteins, the zygotic or seed-specific, and the somatic, such as tuber proteins, have been studied. Gene expression analysis in transgenic plants has defined small regions of the promoters of such genes that are able to confer the appropriate patterns of expression. Protein-DNA interactions, both in vivo and in vitro , have revealed proteins that bind to regions implicated in expression, and these may be transcription factors. Promoter deletion analysis has determined the role of some of these DNA-binding proteins, such as in determining tissue-specificity or levels of expression. A common theme linking the expression of both classes of storage proteins is the involvement of metabolite levels in directly controlling gene expression.

Plant storage proteins with antimicrobial activity: novel insights into plant defense mechanisms

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 3290-3305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabete Souza Cândido ◽  
Michelle Flaviane Soares Pinto ◽  
Patrícia Barbosa Pelegrini ◽  
Thais Bergamin Lima ◽  
Osmar Nascimento Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Activity ◽  
Plant Defense ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Storage Proteins ◽  
Plant Storage

Metabolic signalling and the partitioning of resources in plant storage organs

1999 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIGEL G. HALFORD
Keyword(s):  
Dry Weight ◽  
Wild Relatives ◽  
Crop Plants ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Young Plant ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
Cultivated Potato ◽  
Metabolic Signalling ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
Plant Storage

The most important harvested organs of crop plants, such as seeds, tubers and fruits, are often described as assimilate sinks. They play little or no part in the fixation of carbon through the production of sugars through photosynthesis, or in the uptake of nitrogen and sulphur, but import these assimilated resources to support metabolism and to store them in the form of starch, oils and proteins. Wild plants store resources in seeds and tubers to later support an emergent young plant. Cultivated crops are effectively storing resources to provide us with food and many have been bred to accumulate much more than would be required otherwise. For example, approximately 80% of a cultivated potato plant's dry weight is contained in its tubers, ten times the proportion in the tubers of its wild relatives (Inoue & Tanaka 1978). Cultivation and breeding has brought about a shift in the partitioning of carbon and nitrogen assimilate between the organs of the plant.

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