An engineered phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase redirects carbon and nitrogen flow in transgenic potato plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-39

  Rademacher, Thomas ^a,c   Häusler, Rainer E ^b   Hirsch, Heinz Josef ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Lipka, Volker ^a,d   Weier, Dagmar ^a   Kreuzaler, Fritz ^a   Peterhänsel, Christoph ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid content; Carbon partitioning; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase; Photosynthesis; Potato; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYMES; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

PHOSPHORYLATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CATALYSIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MALATES; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

FLAVERIA; FLAVERIA TRINERVIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0036793426     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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