Boilers ethylene plant

Farmer, 2001). Even nectar production may be effected by such hormones (Heil et al, 2001). The gaseous hormone ethylene plays an important role in plant development, but also in defense (Mattoo and Suttle, 1991). Upon perception of a pathogen, plants show enhanced ethylene production, which has been shown to be involved in the induction of defense reactions (Boiler, 1991). Wild tobacco plants engineered with an Arabidopsis sp. ethylene-insensitive gene do not show typical leaf development arrestment in the presence of leaves of other tobacco plants, demonstrating the importance of ethylene in plant development (Knoester et al.,... 

Boiler, T. (1991). Ethylene in pathogenesis and disease resistance. In The Plant Hormone Ethylene, eds. A. K. Matoo and J. C. Suttle, pp. 293-314. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press. 

Ethylene and acetylene are diluted with natural gas in the gas injection equipment and fed to the boiler plant to utilize the energy they contain. The resins can also be used for energy production with the aid of suitable incineration plants. Thus, the high calorific values of these by-products and wastes can be used to produce energy in the form of steam and electricity, thereby avoiding the environmental pollution that would result from the burning of fossil fuels. 

The gaseous plant hormone ethylene is biosynthesized in plant tissue by the following sequence methionine- SAM ACC ethylene [33]. In plant tissues ACC synthase which catalyzes the conversion of SAM to ACC and MTA, is generally the rate-controlling enzyme in the pathway. Soon after Adams and Yang [2] elucidated that ACC derived from SAM served as the immediate precursor of ethylene, Boiler et al. [5] and Yu et al. [37] demonstrated ACC synthase (EC 4.4.1.14) activity from tomato fruit. As predicted from in vivo study, this enzyme requires pyridoxal phosphate. 

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