The sweet side of inhibition: Invertase inhibitors and their importance in plant development and stress responses

Current Enzyme Inhibition

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-177

  Castrillón Arbeláez, Paula A ^a   Délano Frier, John P ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

(A)biotic stress; Alternative splicing; Cold induced sweetening; Crop productivity; Fruit quality; Invertase inhibitors; Invertases; Senescence

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FRUCTAN; INVERTASE INHIBITOR; PECTIN METHYLESTERASE INHIBITOR PROTEIN; SWEETENING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL VACUOLE; CELL WALL; COLD; CROP PRODUCTION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; PLANT TUBER; PLANT YIELD; POTATO; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84855271136     PISSN: 15734080     EISSN: 18756662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340811798807588     Document Type: Review

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