Two members of the aluminum-activated malate transporter family, SlALMT4 and SlALMT5, are expressed during fruit development, and the overexpression of SlALMT5 alters organic acid contents in seeds in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2367-2379

  Sasaki, Takayuki ^a   Tsuchiya, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ariyoshi, Michiyo ^a   Nakano, Ryohei ^a   Ushijima, Koichiro ^a   Kubo, Yasutaka ^a   Mori, Izumi C ^a   Higashiizumi, Emi ^a   Galis, Ivan ^a   Yamamoto, Yoko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aluminum activated malate transporter; Endomembrane; Fruit development; Organic acid; Seed; Tomato.edited statecorrected proof

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; CITRIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER; PLANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL FRACTIONATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALUMINUM; CITRIC ACID; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALATES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 85016131932     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw157     Document Type: Article

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