Subcellular compartmentation of sugar signaling: Links among carbon cellular status, route of sucrolysis, sink-source allocation, and metabolic partitioning

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Tiessen, Axel ^a   Padilla Chacon, Daniel ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

AGPase; Cell organelles; Hexokinase; Signal transduction; Sucrose synthase; Sucrose hexose ratio; Sugar signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887227808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00306     Document Type: Review

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