A cytosolic glucosyltransferase is required for conversion of starch to sucrose in Arabidopsis leaves at night

Plant Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 853-863

  Chia, Tansy ^a   Thorneycroft, David ^b   Chapple, Andrew ^a   Messerli, Gaëlle ^c   Chen, Jychian ^d   Zeeman, Samuel C ^c   Smith, Steven M ^b   Smith, Alison M ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Glucosyltransferase; Maltose metabolism; Maltose transporter; Starch degradation; Starch mutants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYMES; MALTOSE; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; STARCH;

CHLOROPLASTS; MUTATIONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

4 ALPHA GLUCANOTRANSFERASE; 4 ALPHA-GLUCANOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOGEN DEBRANCHING ENZYME; HEXOSE; MALTOSE; STARCH; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOSOL; DARKNESS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF;

ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOSOL; DARKNESS; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOGEN DEBRANCHING ENZYME SYSTEM; HEXOSES; MALTOSE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; STARCH; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 1642416044     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2003.02012.x     Document Type: Article

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