Tobacco transformants with strongly decreased expression of pyrophosphate:fructose-6-phosphate expression in the base of their young growing leaves contain much higher levels of fructose-2,6-bisphosphate but no major changes in fluxes

Planta

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 106-116

  Nielsen, Tom Hamborg ^a,b   Stitt, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Botanisches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon metabolism; Fructose 2,6 bisphosphate; Nicotiana (transformed); Pyrophosphate:fructose 6 phosphate 1 phosphotransferase; Transformants (antisense); Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CELLS; ENZYMES; GLUCOSE; LIGHTING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TISSUE;

TOBACCO TRANSFORMANTS;

TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0035787563     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250100591     Document Type: Article

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