Simultaneous boosting of source and sink capacities doubles tuber starch yield of potato plants

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1088-1098

  Jonik, Claudia ^a   Sonnewald, Uwe ^b   Hajirezaei, Mohammad Reza ^c   Flügge, Ulf Ingo ^a   Ludewig, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Potato; Sink; Source; Starch; Transgenic; Yield

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; STARCH;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CROP; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TUBER; POTATO;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TUBERS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84868529231     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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