The silver lining of a viral agent: Increasing seed yield and harvest index in Arabidopsis by ectopic expression of the potato leaf roll virus movement protein

Plant Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 905-918

  Kronberg, Kristin ^a   Vogel, Florian ^b   Rutten, Twan ^a   Hajirezaei, Mohammed Reza ^a   Sonnewald, Uwe ^b   Hofius, Daniel ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATES; PROTEINS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SILVER; SUGAR (SUCROSE); YIELD STRESS;

CARBON PARTITIONING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LEAF SENESCENCE; PLASMODESMATA (PD); TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

VIRUSES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; POTATO LEAFROLL VIRUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 36248959315     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.102806     Document Type: Article

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