Wheat grain development is characterized by remarkable trehalose 6-phosphate accumulation pregrain filling: Tissue distribution and relationship to SNF1-related protein kinase1 activity

Plant Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 373-381

  Martínez Barajas, Eleazar ^a,d   Delatte, Thierry ^b   Schluepmann, Henriette ^b   de Jong, Gerhardus J ^b   Somsen, Govert W ^b   Nunes, Cátia ^a,c   Primavesi, Lucia F ^a   Coello, Patricia ^a   Mitchell, Rowan A C ^a   Paul, Matthew J ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SNF1-RELATED PROTEIN KINASES; SUCROSE; SUGAR PHOSPHATE; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEEDS; SUCROSE; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; TREHALOSE; TRITICUM;

EID: 79956031909     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.174524     Document Type: Article

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