cDNA cloning and tissue specific expression of a gene for sucrose transporter from rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1389-1396

  Hirose, Tatsuro ^a   Imaizumi, Nobuyuki ^b   Scofield, Graham N ^c,d   Furbank, Robert T ^c,d   Ohsugi, Ryu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Japan Turfgrass Inc   (Japan)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Oryza sativa L.; Rice plant; Sucrose phosphate synthase; Sucrose transporter

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0031439325     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029134     Document Type: Article

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