Plants grow prior to photosynthesis by utilizing stored energy reserves in seeds
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Plant seedlings depend on stored energy reserves such as starch, lipids, and proteins within seeds or cotyledons to fuel early growth and respiration before photosynthesis becomes fully established.
Evidence for · 4
Nature and utilization of seed reserves during germination and heterotrophic growth of young sugar beet seedlings
1992 · cited by 24
Sugar beet seedlings rely on stored lipids and starch reserves for heterotrophic growth and development prior to photosynthetic autonomy.
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Reserve mobilization and starch formation in soybean (<i>Glycine max</i>) cotyledons in relation to seedling growth
1988 · cited by 21
Soybean seedlings mobilize stored reserves, such as sucrose, to support early growth and metabolism during the first several days.
The effect of negative temperature stress on the mobilization of seed reserves for germination and early seedling growth of different maize hybrids
2024 · cited by 1
Maize seedlings utilize the mobilization of endosperm reserves to fuel early root and epicotyl growth during germination.
Cotyledon Shading and Seedling Growth of Pumpkin1
1981 · cited by 0
Pumpkin seedlings can sustain early axis tissue growth in the dark by utilizing stored cotyledon reserves.