Silencing of StKCS6 in potato periderm leads to reduced chain lengths of suberin and wax compounds and increased peridermal transpiration

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 697-707

  Serra, Olga ^a   Soler, Maral ^a   Hohn, Carolin ^b   Franke, Rochus ^b   Schreiber, Lukas ^b   Prat, Salomé ^c   Molinas, Marisa ^a   Figueras, Merc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fatty acid elongase; ketoacyl CoA synthase; lipophilic barrier; periderm; permeability; potato tuber; Solanum tuberosum; suberin; very long chain fatty acid (VLCFA); waxes

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; SUBERIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER; WAX;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PLANT EPIDERMIS; POTATO; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; LIPIDS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; WATER; WAXES;

EID: 67650898205     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern314     Document Type: Article

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