The sucrose transporter StSUT1 localizes to sieve elements in potato tuber phloem and influences tuber physiology and development

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 102-113

  Kühn, Christina ^a   Hajirezaei, Mohammad Reza ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^c   Roessner Tunali, Ute ^c   Czechowski, Tomasz ^c   Hirner, Brigitte ^a,d   Frommer, Wolf B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

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

^d Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME KINETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PROTEINS; STARCH; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

SUCROSE TRANSPORTER;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0346664427     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.011676     Document Type: Article

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