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Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology 1988 Volume.20 No. 5 p.650 ~ p.658
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Mobilization of Proteins in the Cotyledons of Germinating Soybeans(Glycine max)
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Abstract
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The mobilization of proteins in the cotyledons of germinating soybean seeds (Glycine mar [L.] Merr.) and seedlings u-as studied by using light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The cotyledon tissues of soybean. were packed with protein bodies(diameter 0.1-15§) where storage protein of soybean is deposited. Degradation of protein bodies started in the epidermis and vascular tissues. After swelling of the protein bodies, autolysis of storage proteins began while the external membrane remained unbroken. Hydrolysis of proteins could be internal or peripheral and fusion might begin before complete protein degradation. Possible instances of vacuolar fusion were encountered in some cells. In all cases, the result of degradation was the same; the central vacuole of the cell. At the late stages of seedling growth, breakdown of tonoplast was observed in some cells.
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