Varied growth, biomass and cellulose content in tobacco expressing yeast-derived invertases

Planta

Volumn 224, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1315-1327

  Canam, Thomas ^a   Park, Ji Young ^a   Yu, Ka Yun ^a   Campbell, Malcolm M ^b   Ellis, David D ^c   Mansfield, Shawn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENETIC RESOURCES PRESERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; Cellulose; Invertase; Plant growth; Sucrose metabolism; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BIOMASS; CAULIMOVIRUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TOBACCO;

CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM;

EID: 33751115750     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0313-1     Document Type: Article

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