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Part of the book series: Modern Methods of Plant Analysis / Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse ((PFLANZENANAL.,volume 7))

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Glycolysis is one of the two main pathways of carbohydrate degradation in most animal and plant tissues. The term glycolysis is generally considered to mean the anaerobic breakdown of reserve polysaccharide (eg. starch, glycogen), hexoses or hexose phosphates to pyruvate via the Embden-Meyehhof-Pabnas (EMP) pathway. The pyruvate formed may be completely oxidized by the citric acid cycle or converted to lactic acid or ethanol and CO2.

Preparation of manuscript aided by grants from the National Science Foundation and from the United States Air Force under contract No. AF 49(638)198.

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Abbreviations

Pi:

inorganic orthophosphate

G 1-P:

glucose 1-phosphate

G 6-P:

glucose 6-phosphate

F 6-P:

fructose 6-phosphate

FDP:

fructose 1,6-diphosphate

DHAP:

dihydroxy-acetone phosphate

G3-P:

glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate

1,3 di PGA:

1,3-diphosphogly cerate

3-PGA:

3-phosphoglycerate

2-PGA:

2-phosphoglycerate

PEP:

phosphoenolpyruvate

DPN:

diphosphopyridine nucleotide

DPNH:

reduced diphosphopyridine nucleotide

TPN:

tri-phosphopyridine nucleotide

TPNH:

reduced triphosphopyridine nucleotide

ADP:

adenosine diphosphate

ATP:

adenosine triphosphate

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Gibbs, M., Turner, J.F. (1964). Enzymes of Glycolysis. In: Linskens, H.F., Sanwal, B.D., Tracey, M.V. (eds) Modern Methods of Plant Analysis / Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis / Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48141-3_19

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