Metabolic engineering of sugars and simple sugar derivatives in plants

Plasmodesmata Paradigm Shift: Regulation from Without Versus Within

(2012) Tessa M. Burch-Smith et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Re-engineering of carbon fixation in plants – challenges for plant biotechnology to improve yields in a high-CO2 world

(2012) Christoph Peterhansel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Uniform ripening Encodes a Golden 2-like Transcription Factor Regulating Tomato Fruit Chloroplast Development

(2012) A. L. T. Powell et al.   SCIENCE

A critical review on the improvement of photosynthetic carbon assimilation in C3plants using genetic engineering

(2011) Cheng-Jiang Ruan et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial sucrose isomerases: Producing organisms, genes and enzymes

(2011) Ken C. Goulter et al.   ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY

Biochemical factors contributing to tomato fruit sugar content: a review

(2011) Diane M. Beckles et al.   Fruits

The role of transitory starch in C3, CAM, and C4 metabolism and opportunities for engineering leaf starch accumulation

(2011) Sean E. Weise et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Induction of vacuolar invertase inhibitor mRNA in potato tubers contributes to cold-induced sweetening resistance and includes spliced hybrid mRNA variants

(2011) David A. Brummell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Trehalose: Current Use and Future Applications

(2011) Satoshi Ohtake et al.   JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Membrane-Transport Systems for Sucrose in Relation to Whole-Plant Carbon Partitioning

(2011) Brian G. Ayre   Molecular Plant

The cellular language of myo-inositol signaling

(2011) Glenda E. Gillaspy   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Accumulation of raffinose in rice seedlings overexpressing OsWRKY11 in relation to desiccation tolerance

(2011) Xiaolan Wu et al.   Plant Biotechnology

Field performance of transgenic sugarcane expressing isomaltulose synthase

(2011) Shiromani W. V. Basnayake et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Accumulation of trehalose increases soluble sugar contents in rice plants conferring tolerance to drought and salt stress

(2011) Mark C. F. R. Redillas et al.   Plant Biotechnology Reports

Malate Plays a Crucial Role in Starch Metabolism, Ripening, and Soluble Solid Content of Tomato Fruit and Affects Postharvest Softening

(2011) Danilo C. Centeno et al.   PLANT CELL

Phloem unloading follows an extensive apoplasmic pathway in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruit from anthesis to marketable maturing stage

(2011) LIPING HU et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Proton-driven sucrose symport and antiport are provided by the vacuolar transporters SUC4 and TMT1/2

(2011) Alexander Schulz et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Metabolism of soluble sugars in developing melon fruit: a global transcriptional view of the metabolic transition to sucrose accumulation

(2011) Nir Dai et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Wheat Grain Development Is Characterized by Remarkable Trehalose 6-Phosphate Accumulation Pregrain Filling: Tissue Distribution and Relationship to SNF1-Related Protein Kinase1 Activity

(2011) E. Martinez-Barajas et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Isomaltulose Is Actively Metabolized in Plant Cells

(2011) L. Wu et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Tomato Fruit Photosynthesis Is Seemingly Unimportant in Primary Metabolism and Ripening But Plays a Considerable Role in Seed Development

(2011) A. Lytovchenko et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Growth Arrest by Trehalose-6-Phosphate: An Astonishing Case of Primary Metabolite Control over Growth by Way of the SnRK1 Signaling Pathway

(2011) Thierry L. Delatte et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Sucrose synthase activity in the sus1/sus2/sus3/sus4 Arabidopsis mutant is sufficient to support normal cellulose and starch production

(2011) E. Baroja-Fernandez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sucrose Efflux Mediated by SWEET Proteins as a Key Step for Phloem Transport

(2011) L.-Q. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Interpreting the decrease in leaf photosynthesis during flowering in mango

(2011) L. Urban et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Modelling genetic and environmental control of biomass partitioning at plant and phytomer level of sugarcane grown in controlled environments

(2011) A. Singels et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Starch: Its Metabolism, Evolution, and Biotechnological Modification in Plants

(2010) Samuel C. Zeeman et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Antisense repression of sucrose phosphate synthase in transgenic muskmelon alters plant growth and fruit development

(2010) Hongmei Tian et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

The Vitis vinifera sugar transporter gene family: phylogenetic overview and macroarray expression profiling

(2010) Damien Afoufa-Bastien et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Sugar signals and molecular networks controlling plant growth

(2010) Sjef Smeekens et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The biorefinery concept: Using biomass instead of oil for producing energy and chemicals

(2010) Francesco Cherubini   ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT

Physiological basis for enhanced sucrose accumulation in an engineered sugarcane cell line

(2010) Luguang Wu et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Reduced neutral invertase activity in the culm tissues of transgenic sugarcane plants results in a decrease in respiration and sucrose cycling and an increase in the sucrose to hexose ratio

(2010) Debra Rossouw et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Tuber-Specific Silencing of the Acid Invertase Gene Substantially Lowers the Acrylamide-Forming Potential of Potato

(2010) Jingsong Ye et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Combining ecophysiological modelling and quantitative trait locus analysis to identify key elementary processes underlying tomato fruit sugar concentration

(2010) Marion Prudent et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Functional Characterization and RNAi-Mediated Suppression Reveals Roles for Hexose Transporters in Sugar Accumulation by Tomato Fruit

(2010) David W. McCurdy et al.   Molecular Plant

Sucrose: Metabolite and signaling molecule

(2010) Julia Wind et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Transgenic expression of trehalulose synthase results in high concentrations of the sucrose isomer trehalulose in mature stems of field-grown sugarcane

(2010) Dénes Hamerli et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Sugarcane for bioenergy production: an assessment of yield and regulation of sucrose content

(2010) Alessandro J. Waclawovsky et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Increased Activity of the Vacuolar Monosaccharide Transporter TMT1 Alters Cellular Sugar Partitioning, Sugar Signaling, and Seed Yield in Arabidopsis

(2010) K. Wingenter et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Advancing Our Understanding and Capacity to Engineer Nature's CO2-Sequestering Enzyme, Rubisco

(2010) S. M. Whitney et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Suppression of the Vacuolar Invertase Gene Prevents Cold-Induced Sweetening in Potato

(2010) P. B. Bhaskar et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Snf1-related protein kinases (SnRKs) act within an intricate network that links metabolic and stress signalling in plants

(2009) Nigel G. Halford et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Sugarcane genes associated with sucrose content

(2009) Flavia S Papini-Terzi et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Down-regulation of galactinol synthesis in oilseed Brassica napus leads to significant reduction of antinutritional oligosaccharidesThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in a Special Issue from the National Research Council of Canada – Plant Biotechnology Institute.

(2009) Cheryl Bock et al.   Botany

Ubiquitous distribution and different subcellular localization of sorbitol dehydrogenase in fruit and leaf of apple

(2009) X.-L. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A cytosolic invertase is required for normal growth and cell development in the model legume, Lotus japonicus

(2009) Tracey Welham et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Posttranslational Elevation of Cell Wall Invertase Activity by Silencing Its Inhibitor in Tomato Delays Leaf Senescence and Increases Seed Weight and Fruit Hexose Level

(2009) Y. Jin et al.   PLANT CELL

A Sugar-Inducible Protein Kinase, VvSK1, Regulates Hexose Transport and Sugar Accumulation in Grapevine Cells

(2009) F. Lecourieux et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Vascular Function in Grape Berries across Development and Its Relevance to Apparent Hydraulic Isolation

(2009) B. Choat et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Inhibition of SNF1-Related Protein Kinase1 Activity and Regulation of Metabolic Pathways by Trehalose-6-Phosphate

(2009) Y. Zhang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

RNA Interference of LIN5 in Tomato Confirms Its Role in Controlling Brix Content, Uncovers the Influence of Sugars on the Levels of Fruit Hormones, and Demonstrates the Importance of Sucrose Cleavage for Normal Fruit Development and Fertility

(2009) M. I. Zanor et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Cinderella story of sucrose hydrolysis: Alkaline/neutral invertases, from cyanobacteria to unforeseen roles in plant cytosol and organelles

(2009) Walter A. Vargas et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Downregulation of pyrophosphate: d-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase activity in sugarcane culms enhances sucrose accumulation due to elevated hexose-phosphate levels

(2009) Margaretha J. van der Merwe et al.   PLANTA

Normal growth of Arabidopsis requires cytosolic invertase but not sucrose synthase

(2009) D. H. P. Barratt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trehalose Metabolism and Signaling

(2008) Matthew J. Paul et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

The reduction of starch accumulation in transgenic sugarcane cell suspension culture lines

(2008) Stephanus J. Ferreira et al.   Biotechnology Journal

Melon Fruits: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Biotechnology Features

(2008) Hector G. Nuñez-Palenius et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Alpha-Galactosides: Antinutritional Factors or Functional Ingredients?

(2008) Cristina Martínez-Villaluenga et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION

Antisense suppression of an acid invertase gene (MAI1) in muskmelon alters plant growth and fruit development

(2008) X. Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Supply and demand: sink regulation of sugar accumulation in sugarcane

(2008) A. J. McCormick et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Regulation of photosynthesis by sugars in sugarcane leaves

(2008) Alistair James McCormick et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Agriculture and the new challenges for photosynthesis research

(2008) E. H. Murchie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Galactinol and Raffinose Constitute a Novel Function to Protect Plants from Oxidative Damage

(2008) A. Nishizawa et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Efficient silencing of reporter transgenes coupled to known functional promoters in sugarcane, a highly polyploid crop species

(2008) Stephen R. Mudge et al.   PLANTA

Fruit ripening in Vitis vinifera: apoplastic solute accumulation accounts for pre-veraison turgor loss in berries

(2008) Hiroshi Wada et al.   PLANTA

Mesocarp cell turgor in Vitis vinifera L. berries throughout development and its relation to firmness, growth, and the onset of ripening

(2008) Tyler R. Thomas et al.   PLANTA

Identifying and characterising regulatory metabolites with generalised supply–demand analysis

(2007) Johann M. Rohwer et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY