Potato plants contain multiple forms of sucrose phosphate synthase, which differ in their tissue distributions, their levels during development, and their responses to low temperature

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 291-305

  Reimholz, R ^a   Geiger, M ^a   Haake, V ^a   Deiting, U ^a   Krause, K P ^b   Sonnewald, U ^b   Stitt, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

isoforms; low temperature; potato tuber; Solanum tuberosum; sucrose phosphate synthase

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0030935743     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1997.d01-83.x     Document Type: Article

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