Altering trehalose-6-phosphate content in transgenic potato tubers affects tuber growth and alters responsiveness to hormones during sprouting

Plant Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1754-1771

  Debast, Stefan ^a   Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^b,d   Hajirezaei, Mohammad R ^c   Hofmann, Jörg ^a   Sonnewald, Uwe ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Börnke, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 79961238547     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.179903     Document Type: Article

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