Constitutive overexpression of the sucrose transporter SoSUT1 in potato plants increases arbuscular mycorrhiza fungal root colonization under high, but not under low, soil phosphorus availability

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 911-919

  Gabriel Neumann, Elke ^a   Neumann, Günter ^b   Leggewie, Georg ^c   George, Eckhard ^d,e  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Carbohydrate partitioning; Phloem loading; Phosphorus nutrition; Sucrose transporter SUT1

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COPPER; PHOSPHORUS; SUCROSE; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

COPPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MYCELIUM; MYCORRHIZAE; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUCROSE; ZINC;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 79955097542     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2010.11.026     Document Type: Article

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