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Biosynthesis of storage proteins in angiosperm seeds represents a massive, one time, embryo-specific expression of a few genes during a short period of the plant’s developmental cycle. Storage protein begins to accumulate rapidly about one third to one half of the way through seed development at a time when cell divisions are completed or nearly so (Millerd, 1975; Dure, 1975). Thus there is a numerically stabilized embryo cell population in which protein composition is changing due to the preferential synthesis of one or a few storage proteins.
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Sussex, I.M., Dale, R.M.K., Crouch, M.L. (1980). Developmental Regulation of Storage Protein Synthesis in Seeds. In: Leaver, C.J. (eds) Genome Organization and Expression in Plants. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 29. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3051-6_24
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