Starch content and yield increase as a result of altering adenylate pools in transgenic plants

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1256-1260

  Regierer, Babette ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a   Springer, Franziska ^a   Perez Melis, Alicia ^a   Leisse, Andrea ^a   Koehl, Karin ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a   Geigenberger, Peter ^a   Kossmann, Jens ^a,b  

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

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); STARCH; TISSUE;

GENETIC MANIPULATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

1,4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENYLATE KINASE; AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; POTATO STARCH; STARCH SYNTHASE; STARCH;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TUBER YIELD; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TUBER; PLASTID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADENYLATE KINASE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TUBERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARCH;

EID: 0036903119     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt760     Document Type: Article

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