The control of source to sink carbon flux during tuber development in potato

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 697-706

  Sweetlove, Lee J ^a   Kossmann, Jens ^b   Riesmeier, Jörg W ^b   Trethewey, Richard N ^b   Hill, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON; GENETIC MANIPULATION; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT METABOLISM; SUCROSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0031750684     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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