Changes in stomatal function and water use efficiency in potato plants with altered sucrolytic activity

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 747-759

  Antunes, Werner C ^a   Provart, Nicholas J ^b   Williams, Thomas C R ^a   Loureiro, Marcelo E ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guard cell; Invertase; Sucrose synthase

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SUC2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

BIOENGINEERING; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GAS EXCHANGE; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POTATO; STOMATA; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; SUCROSE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUCROSE; WATER;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84857993162     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02448.x     Document Type: Article

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