Sucrose transport into barley seeds: Molecular characterization of two transporters and implications for seed development and starch accumulation

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 455-467

  Weschke, Winfriede ^a   Panitz, Reinhard ^a   Sauer, Norbert ^b   Wang, Qing ^a   Neubohn, Birgit ^a   Weber, Hans ^a   Wobus, Ulrich ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; BIOACCUMULATION; CARYOPSIS; CDNA LIBRARY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CLONE; ENDOSPERM; GENE INDUCTION; HVSUT1 GENE; HVSUT2 GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; SEED DEVELOPMENT; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRANSPORTER GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HORDEUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEEDS; STARCH; SUCROSE;

CARYOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0034126917     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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