Differential expression of sucrose-phosphate synthase isoenzymes in tobacco reflects their functional specialization during dark-governed starch mobilization in source leaves

Plant Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1163-1174

  Chen, Shuai ^a,b   Hajirezaei, Mohammad ^a   Börnke, Frederik ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA; STARCH; TISSUE; TOBACCO;

RNA INTERFERENCE; SOURCE LEAVES; STARCH MOBILIZATION; SUCROSE (SUC)-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (SPS);

ENZYME KINETICS;

ENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STARCH; TISSUE; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; MALTOSE; MESSENGER RNA; STARCH; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; ISOENZYMES; MALTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STARCH; TOBACCO;

EID: 33644842205     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.069468     Document Type: Article

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