Symplastic connection is required for bud outgrowth following dormancy in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 973-983

  Viola, Roberto ^a,b   Pelloux, Jérôme ^a,c   Van Der Ploeg, Anke ^a,d   Gillespie, Trudi ^a,e   Marquis, Nicola ^a   Roberts, Alison G ^a   Hancock, Robert D ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sink source transition

Indexed keywords

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; 6-CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; STARCH; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BUD; DORMANCY; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; ORGANIC ACID; PHLOEM; POTATO; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TUBER;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODESMA; POTATO; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCEINS; PHLOEM; PLASMODESMATA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH; SUCROSE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 34447116368     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01692.x     Document Type: Article

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