Altered sucrose synthase and invertase expression affects the local and systemic sugar metabolism of nematode-infected Arabidopsis thaliana plants

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 201-212

  Cabello, Susana ^a   Lorenz, Cindy ^a   Crespo, Sara ^a   Cabrera, Javier ^b   Ludwig, Roland ^a   Escobar, Carolina ^b   Hofmann, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cytosolic invertase; enzyme activity; Heterodera schachtii; Meloidogyne javanica; nematode; neutral invertase; plant pathogen; sucrose synthase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOSOLIC INVERTASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HETERODERA SCHACHTII; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA; METABOLISM; NEMATODE; NEUTRAL INVERTASE; PARASITOLOGY; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; SUCROSE SYNTHASE.; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TYLENCHOIDEA;

CYTOSOLIC INVERTASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HETERODERA SCHACHTII; MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA; NEMATODE; NEUTRAL INVERTASE; PLANT PATHOGEN; SUCROSE SYNTHASE.;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHLOEM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SUCROSE; TYLENCHOIDEA;

EID: 84892695319     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert359     Document Type: Article

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