Identification and characterization of the three homeologues of a new sucrose transporter in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Deol, Kirandeep K ^a   Mukherjee, Shalini ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Brûlé Babel, Anita ^a   Stasolla, Claudio ^a   Ayele, Belay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Developing seeds; Gene expression; Homeologous genes; Source tissues; Sucrose transporter; TaSUT2; Wheat

Indexed keywords

PALEA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CARRIER PROTEIN; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; PLANT SEED; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPLOIDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84887566179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-181     Document Type: Article

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