Engineering photoassimilate partitioning in tobacco plants improves growth and productivity and provides pathogen resistance

Plant Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 330-341

  Murillo, Isabel ^a   Roca, Ramón ^a   Bortolotti, Cristina ^a   San Segundo, Blanca ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nicotiana tabacum; Pathogen; Pathogenesis related; Plasmodesmata; PRms; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DNA; GENES; PROTEINS; SEED; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

PATHOGENS; PHOTOASSIMILATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; CAULIMOVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0345393270     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01880.x     Document Type: Article

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