Coordination of carbon supply and plant growth

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1126-1149

  Smith, Alison M ^a   Stitt, Mark ^b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Carbon allocation; Enzyme activities; Expression arrays; Metabolites

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; STARCH;

ACCLIMATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HERB; PLANT; SIGNALING; SUGAR;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 34547477624     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01708.x     Document Type: Review

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