Post-anthesis alternate wetting and moderate soil drying enhances activities of key enzymes in sucrose-to-starch conversion in inferior spikelets of rice

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 215-227

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Li, Hongwei ^a   Yuan, Liming ^a   Wang, Zhiqin ^a   Yang, Jianchang ^a   Zhang, Jianhua ^b  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid (ABA); adenosine diphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase; alternate wetting and moderate soil drying; grain filling; inferior spikelets; rice (Oryza sativa); sink strength; superior spikelets

Indexed keywords

1,4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ENZYME; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; STARCH; STARCH SYNTHASE; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; RICE; SOIL;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ENZYMES; GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL; STARCH; STARCH SYNTHASE; SUCROSE;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84555194875     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err263     Document Type: Article

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