Source-sink imbalance increases with growth temperature in the spring geophyte Erythronium americanum

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3467-3479

  Gandin, Anthony ^a,c,d   Gutjahr, Sylvain ^b   Dizengremel, Pierre ^c   Lapointe, Line ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulb; carbohydrate; carbon allocation; carbon metabolism; Erythronium americanum; sink strength; starch; sucrose cleaving enzymes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; STARCH; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TEMPERATURE;

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LILIACEAE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; STARCH; SUCROSE; TEMPERATURE;

ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM;

EID: 79960265265     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err020     Document Type: Article

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