Tuber-specific cytosolic expression of a bacterial phosphoglucomutase in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) dramatically alters carbon partitioning

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 588-597

  Lytovchenko, Anna ^a   Schauer, Nicolas ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Amino acids; Carbohydrate metabolism; Glycolysis; Phosphoglucomutase; Solanum tuberosum L.; Starch synthesis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; CARBON; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; STARCH; SUCROSE; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CYTOSOL; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT TUBERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; URIDINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 18444397196     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci058     Document Type: Article

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