The role of invertases and hexose transporters in controlling sugar ratios in maternal and filial tissues of barley caryopses during early development

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 395-411

  Weschke, Winfriede ^a   Panitz, Reinhard ^a   Gubatz, Sabine ^a   Wang, Qing ^a,b   Radchuk, Ruslana ^a   Weber, Hans ^a   Wobus, Ulrich ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley seed development; Endospermal transfer cells; Invertase activity; Invertase and hexose transporter isoforms; Seed specific EST collection; Sugar levels

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; CELLS; GENES; METABOLISM; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TISSUE;

HEXOSE TRANSPORTERS; VACUOLAR INVERTASE GENES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL WALL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HORDEUM; ISOENZYMES; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; STARCH;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0037259889     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01633.x     Document Type: Article

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