Enhancing vacuolar sucrose cleavage within the developing potato tuber has only minor effects on metabolism

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-289

  Junker, Bjoern H ^a,b   Wuttke, Rene ^a   Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^a   Steinhauser, Dirk ^a   Schauer, Nicolas ^a   Büssis, Dirk ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

Carbohydrate metabolism; Invertase; Metabolic profiling; Potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLUCOSE; HEXOSE PHOSPHATE; ISOENZYME; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMISTRY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENDOCYTOSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLYSIS; HEXOSEPHOSPHATES; ISOENZYMES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT TUBERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUCROSE; VACUOLES;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 33644893939     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci247     Document Type: Article

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