Enhanced photosynthetic performance and growth as a consequence of decreasing mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase activity in transgenic tomato plants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 611-622

  Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^a   Carrari, Fernando ^a   Lytovchenko, Anna ^a   Smith, Anna M O ^b   Loureiro, Marcelo Ehlers ^c   Ratcliffe, R George ^b   Sweetlove, Lee J ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CROPS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

CARBON ASSIMILATION; TOMATO PLANTS; TRANSGENICS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TOMATOES;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

ASCORBIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ASCORBIC ACID; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 19044378856     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.055566     Document Type: Article

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