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Hormone Perception and Signal Transduction in Aleurone

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Aleurone cells of the Graminae are a highly specialised tissue that differentiates from peripheral endosperm cells during seed development and forms, depending on the species, either a single, or three, cell-thick layer enclosing the endosperm. When the developing seed dehydrates, endosperm cells, that contain the majority of the seed’s stored carbohydrate and protein reserves, collapse and die. Aleurone cells are able to tolerate this desiccation and re-hydrate when the seed is subsequently imbibed. Shortly after the seed has germinated aleurone cells begin to synthesise and secrete a variety of hydrolytic enzymes, including α-amylase, that, together with hydrolases secreted by the scutellum epithelium, break down the stored starch and protein reserves of the endosperm to provide nutrients for the growing seedling. In addition, aleurone cells contain the majority of the seed’s stored reserves of myo-inositol, phosphorous and mineral cations such as K+ and Mg2+. These are released into the endosperm after germination and provide the growing seedling with carbohydrate for cell wall synthesis, phosphorous and essential cations. Reserve mobilisation by aleurone cells appears to be coordinated to a large extent by the embryo and it is thought that one of the signals involved in this, the plant hormone gibberellin (GA), is produced by the embryo (Fincher, 1989).

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Hooley, R. et al. (1992). Hormone Perception and Signal Transduction in Aleurone. In: Cooke, D.T., Clarkson, D.T. (eds) Transport and Receptor Proteins of Plant Membranes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3442-6_14

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