Transgenic cotton over-producing spinach sucrose phosphate synthase showed enhanced leaf sucrose synthesis and improved fiber quality under controlled environmental conditions

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 815-832

  Haigler, Candace H ^a   Singh, Bir ^a   Zhang, Deshui ^b   Hwang, Sangjoon ^c   Wu, Chunfa ^d   Cai, Wendy X ^e   Hozain, Mohamed ^e   Kang, Wonhee ^f   Kiedaisch, Brett ^g   Strauss, Richard E ^e   Hequet, Eric F ^e   Wyatt, Bobby G ^e   Jividen, Gay M ^h   Holaday, A Scott ^e  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ventria Bioscience   (United States)

^c Digital Genomics   (South Korea)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^g Healthpoint Ltd   (United States)

^h Agricultural and Environmental Research Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon partitioning; Cotton fiber quality; Environmental stress; Sucrose, starch, and cellulose metabolism; Transgenic cotton

Indexed keywords

CARBON PARTITIONING; COTTON FIBER QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; TRANSGENIC COTTON;

CELLULOSE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYMES; METABOLISM; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COTTON FIBERS;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; STARCH; SUCROSE; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COTTON; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINACH; TEMPERATURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COTTON FIBER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GOSSYPIUM; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINACIA OLERACEA; STARCH; SUCROSE; TEMPERATURE;

CELLULOSE; COTTON; E I S; ENZYMES; METABOLISM; SUGAR; SYNTHESIS;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 33947113792     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-006-9127-6     Document Type: Article

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