Tissue-specific induction of the mRNA for an extracellular invertase isoenzyme of tomato by brassinosteroids suggests a role for steroid hormones in assimilate partitioning

Plant Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 515-522

  Goetz, Marc ^b   Godt, Dietmute E ^a,b   Roitsch, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BRASSINOSTEROID; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; HEXOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT GROWTH; SUCROSE; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; TOMATO;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ENZYME INDUCTION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYPOCOTYL; ISOENZYMES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; STEROIDS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033934103     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00766.x     Document Type: Article

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