The sugar transporter inventory of tomato: Genome-wide identification and expression analysis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1123-1141

  Reuscher, Stefan ^a   Akiyama, Masahito ^a   Yasuda, Tomohide ^a   Makino, Haruko ^a   Aoki, Koh ^b   Shibata, Daisuke ^c   Shiratake, Katsuhiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

EST; Fruit development; Gene expression analysis; Sugar transporter; Tomato

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; TOMATO; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84902436704     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcu052     Document Type: Article

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