A bypass of sucrose synthase leads to low internal oxygen and impaired metabolic performance in growing potato tubers

Plant Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2058-2072

  Bologa, Karin L ^a,b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a   Leisse, Andrea ^a   Ehlers Loureiro, Marcello ^a,c   Geigenberger, Peter ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROLYSIS; OXYGEN; RNA; STARCH; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0041508877     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.022236     Document Type: Article

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