Antisense repression of vacuolar and cell wall invertase in transgenic carrot alters early plant development and sucrose partitioning

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-189

  Tang, Guo Qing ^a   Lüscher, Marcel ^b   Sturm, Arnd ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE RNA; ANTISENSE TECHNOLOGY; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CELL VACUOLE; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUCTOSE; GENE REPRESSION; GLUCOSE; HEXOSE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT METABOLISM; SUCROSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0033079166     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.2.177     Document Type: Article

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