Antisense repression of hexokinase 1 leads to an overaccumulation of starch in leaves of transgenic potato plants but not to significant changes in tuber carbohydrate metabolism

Plant Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-133

  Veramendi, Jon ^a,b   Roessner, Ute ^a   Renz, Andreas ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a   Trethewey, Richard N ^a,c  

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

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c 10589 Berlin Germany   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE REPRESSION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CDNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEXOKINASE 1; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT PRODUCT;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033198587     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.1.123     Document Type: Article

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