The medicago truncatula sucrose transporter family: Characterization and implication of key members in carbon partitioning towards arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1346-1358

  Doidy, Joan ^a   Van Tuinen, Diederik ^a   Lamotte, Olivier ^a   Corneillat, Marion ^a   Alcaraz, Gérard ^a   Wipf, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIV BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Glomus intraradices; Medicago truncatula; sucrose transporter; sugar partitioning; sugar transport; SUT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870546730     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss079     Document Type: Article

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