Enhanced photosynthesis and growth in atquac1 knockout mutants are due to altered organic acid accumulation and an increase in both stomatal and mesophyll conductance

Plant Physiology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 86-101

  Medeiros, David B ^a   Martins, Samuel C V ^a   Cavalcanti, João Henrique F ^a   Daloso, Danilo M ^b   Martinoia, Enrico ^c   Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^a   DaMatta, Fábio M ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Araújo, Wagner L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENZYME; FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MALIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER; QUAC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESOPHYLL CELL; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHTS; ENZYMES; FUMARATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MALATES; MESOPHYLL CELLS; MUTATION; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STOMATA;

EID: 84953292906     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01053     Document Type: Article

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