Potato plants exhibiting combined antisense repression of cytosolic and plastidial isoforms of phosphoglucomutase surprisingly approximate wild type with respect to the rate of starch synthesis

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 921-927

  Fernie, Alisdair R ^a   Swiedrych, Anna ^b   Tauberger, Eva ^a   Lytovchenko, Anna ^a   Trethewey, Richard N ^c   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c Metanomics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense repression; Carbon uptake; Glucose 1 phosphate; Phosphoglucomutase; Solanum tuberosum; Starch synthesis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; ISOENZYME; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE REPRESSION; METABOLITE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD TYPE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0036856638     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0981-9428(02)01457-2     Document Type: Article

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