Seed-specific overexpression of a potato sucrose transporter increases sucrose uptake and growth rates of developing pea cotyledons

Plant Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 165-175

  Rosche, Elke ^a   Blackmore, Daniel ^a   Tegeder, Mechthild ^b   Richardson, Terese ^c   Schroeder, Hart ^c   Higgins, Thomas J V ^c   Frommer, Wolf B ^b   Offler, Christina E ^a   Patrick, John W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Overexpression; Pea; Seed growth; Sucrose transporters; Transgene; Transport

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; SEED; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

SEED COATS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PISUM SATIVUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

CARRIER PROTEIN; SUCROSE; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COTYLEDON; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PEA; PLANT SEED; POTATO; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOMASS; COTYLEDON; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINETICS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PEAS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEEDS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUCROSE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0035999893     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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