Endosperm: Developmental and Molecular Biology

The nutritive endosperm of angiosperms is mankind’s most important source of food, livesk feed and industrial raw material. This book is the first comprehensive overview of the developmental and molecular biology of endosperm. The text covers cereal endosperm development from fertilization to maturity, including molecular and cell biology of the syncytial phase, the cellularization process and cell fate specification of the embryo surrounding region cells, the basal transfer cells, the star...