Overexpression of GhSusA1 increases plant biomass and improves cotton fiber yield and quality

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-312

  Jiang, Yanjie ^a   Guo, Wangzhen ^a   Zhu, Huayu ^a   Ruan, Yong Ling ^b,c   Zhang, Tianzhen ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Cotton; Fiber quality; Overexpression; Sucrose synthase; Transgene

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COTTON; CROSS BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GOSSYPIUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; SEEDLING; TETRAPLOIDY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COTTON FIBER; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GOSSYPIUM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDLING; SEEDS; TETRAPLOIDY;

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 84857920948     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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