Fluxes in central carbohydrate metabolism of source leaves in a fructan-storing C3 grass: Rapid turnover and futile cycling of sucrose in continuous light under contrasted nitrogen nutrition status

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2363-2375

  Lattanzi, Fernando A ^a   Ostler, Ulrike ^a   Wild, Melanie ^a,c   Morvan Bertrand, Annette ^b   Decau, Marie Laure ^b   Lehmeier, Christoph A ^a,d   Meuriot, Frédéric ^b   Prud'Homme, Marie Pascale ^b   Schäufele, Rudi ^a   Schnyder, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; carbon fluxes; central carbohydrate metabolism; compartmental analysis; fructan; futile cycling; store; sucrose; tracer; turnover

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FERTILIZER; FRUCTAN; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; NITROGEN; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; LOLIUM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TIME;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; FERTILIZERS; FRUCTANS; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; LIGHT; LOLIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SUBSTRATE CYCLING; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

LOLIUM PERENNE;

EID: 84859351415     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers020     Document Type: Article

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