Increased potato tuber size resulting from apoplastic expression of a yeast invertase

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 794-797

  Sonnewald, Uwe ^a,b   Hajirezaei, Mohammad Reza ^b   Kossmann, Jens ^a,c   Heyer, Arnd ^a,c   Trethewey, Richard N ^c   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a,c  

^a Institut fur Genbiologische Forschung Berlin GmbH   (Germany)

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

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricutural biotechnology; Metabolic engineering; Sink strength; Solanum tuberosum

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; YEAST;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CHIMERA; CYTOSOL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUCROSE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0030802548     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0897-794     Document Type: Article

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