Antisense inhibition of the plastidial glucose-6-phosphate/phosphate translocator in Vicia seeds shifts cellular differentiation and promotes protein storage

Plant Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 468-484

  Rolletschek, Hardy ^a   Nguyen, Thuy H ^a   Häusler, Rainer E ^b   Rutten, Twan ^a   Göbel, Cornelia ^c   Feussner, Ivo ^c   Radchuk, Ruslana ^a   Tewes, Annegret ^a   Claus, Bernhard ^a   Klukas, Christian ^a   Linemann, Ute ^d   Weber, Hans ^a   Wobus, Ulrich ^a   Borisjuk, Ljudmilla ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d KGaA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assimilate partitioning; Crops; Metabolite transporter; Plastid differentiation; Seed development; Starch biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE ENCODING; PHOSPHATES; PROTEINS; SEED;

ASSIMILATE PARTITIONING; SINK TISSUES; TRANSGENIC APPROACH; VICIA NARBONENSIS;

GLUCOSE;

ANTIPORTER; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; STARCH; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEAN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PLASTID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIPORTERS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; LIPID METABOLISM; PHOSPHATES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEEDS; STARCH; VICIA;

VICIA; VICIA NARBONENSIS;

EID: 34547121436     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03155.x     Document Type: Article

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