A Transgenic Study on Affecting Potato Tuber Yield by Expressing the Rice Sucrose Transporter Genes OsSUT5Z and OsSUT2M

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 586-595

  Sun, Aijun ^a   Dai, Yan ^a   Zhang, Xinsheng ^b   Li, Chunmin ^b   Meng, Kun ^a,c   Xu, Honglin ^a   Wei, Xiaoli ^a   Xiao, Guifang ^a   Ouwerkerk, Pieter B F ^d   Wang, Mei ^e   Zhu, Zhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b Academy of Hebei Agricultural and Forestry Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

OsSUT2M; OsSUT5Z; Rice sucrose transporter; Transgenic potato; Tuber yield

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

DNA; POTATO; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TUBER; YIELD RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT TUBERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 79960130925     PISSN: 16729072     EISSN: 17447909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2011.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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