Reply to Smith et al.: No evidence to challenge the current paradigm on starch and cellulose biosynthesis involving sucrose synthase activity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Baroja Fernández, Edurne ^a   Muñoz, Francisco José ^a   Bahaji, Abdellatif ^a   Almagro, Goizeder ^a   Pozueta Romero, Javier ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; STARCH; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84859461130     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201538109     Document Type: Letter

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2. Barratt DHP, et al. (2009) Normal growth of Arabidopsis requires cytosolic invertase but not sucrose synthase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:13124-13129.
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5. Angeles-Núñez JG, Tiessen A (2010) Arabidopsis sucrose synthase 2 and 3 modulate metabolic homeostasis and direct carbon towards starch synthesis in developing seeds. Planta 232:701-718.