Sugar and metabolic regulation of genes for sucrose metabolism: Potential influence of maize sucrose synthase and soluble invertase responses on carbon partitioning and sugar sensing

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 47, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 1179-1185

  Koch, Karen E ^a   Wu, Yong ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate regulated genes; Catabolite repression; Gene expression; Hexokinase; Starvation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001733176     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/47.special_issue.1179     Document Type: Article

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