Decreased sucrose content triggers starch breakdown and respiration in stored potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum)

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 382, 2003, Pages 477-488

  Hajirezaei, Mohammad Reza ^a   Börnke, Frederik ^a   Peisker, Martin ^a   Takahata, Yasuhiro ^b   Lerchl, Jens ^c   Kirakosyan, Ara ^d   Sonnewald, Uwe ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

^c Plant Science Sweden AB   (Sweden)

^d YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Invertase; Potato tuber; Respiration; Starch breakdown; Sucrose isomerase; Sucrose sensing

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TISSUE; YEAST;

POTATO TUBERS;

STARCH;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; BETA-AMYLASE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CELL RESPIRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; ISOMALTOSE; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH; STARCH PHOSPHORYLASE; SUCROSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; YEASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0346034670     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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