Downregulating the sucrose transporter VpSUT1 in Verbascum phoeniceum does not inhibit phloem loading

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18849-18854

  Zhang, Cankui ^a   Turgeon, Robert ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasmodesmata; Raffinose; Stachyose

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VPSUT1; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TOBACCO; VERBASCUM;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLUBILITY; SUCROSE; TOBACCO; VERBASCUM;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; VERBASCUM PHOENICEUM;

EID: 73249152231     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904189106     Document Type: Article

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