Orotate leads to a specific increase in uridine nucleotide levels and a stimulation of sucrose degradation and starch synthesis in discs from growing potato tubers

Planta

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 314-323

  Loef, Irene ^a   Stitt, Mark ^a   Geigenberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nucleotide; Orotate; Solanum (tubers); Starch; Sucrose; Uridine

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; OROTIC ACID; PLANT METABOLISM; POTATO; STARCH; SUCROSE; URIDINE;

EID: 0032825479     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050638     Document Type: Article

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