Expression of a yeast-derived invertase in developing cotyledons of Vicia narbonensis alters the carbohydrate state and affects storage functions

Plant Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-172

  Weber, Hans ^a   Heim, Ute ^a   Golombek, Sabine ^a   Borisjuk, Ljudmilla ^a,b   Manteuffel, Renate ^a   Wobus, Ulrich ^a  

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

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CARBON; CELL VACUOLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HEXOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE; VICILIN;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COTYLEDON; ENZYME INDUCTION; FABACEAE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VACUOLES; YEASTS;

EID: 0032191986     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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