Sugar-responsive gene expression, invertase activity, and senescence in aborting maize ovaries at low water potentials

Annals of Botany

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 675-689

  McLaughlin, John E ^a   Boyer, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Gene expression; Invertase; Ovary development; Phospholipase D; Pollination; Ribosome inactivating protein; Senescence; Sucrose; Sugar responsive genes; Water potential; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

MAIZE;

ZEA MAYS;

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; SUCROSE; WATER;

ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; POLLEN; SWEATING; TIME; UPREGULATION;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; POLLEN; SEEDS; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; WATER; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 16644387403     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mch193     Document Type: Article

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