Guard cell-specific upregulation of sucrose synthase 3 reveals that the role of sucrose in stomatal function is primarily energetic

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1470-1483

  Daloso, Danilo M ^a,b   Williams, Thomas C R ^a,c   Antunes, Werner C ^a,d   Pinheiro, Daniela P ^a   Müller, Caroline ^a   Loureiro, Marcelo E ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nicotiana tabacum; Guard cell metabolism; Organic acids; Stomatal aperture; Sucrose; Sucrose synthase

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT INTENSITY; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; ORGANIC ACID; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; SUCROSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GAS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT PROTEIN; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CYTOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENZYMOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAS; GENETICS; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; POTATO; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DROUGHTS; GASES; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUCROSE; TOBACCO; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84950347666     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13704     Document Type: Article

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