The role of sugar accumulation in leaf frost hardiness - Investigations with transgenic tobacco expressing a bacterial pyrophosphatase or a yeast invertase gene

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 604-610

  Hincha, Dirk K ^a   Sonnewald, Uwe ^b   Willmitzer, Lothar ^c   Schmitt, Jürgen M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Genbiologische Forschung Berlin GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial pyrophosphatase; Frost hardiness; Nicotiana tabacum; Solute accumulation; Transgenic plants; Yeast invertase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0030037934     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-1617(96)80053-8     Document Type: Article

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