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Novel candidate genes influencing natural variation in potato tuber cold sweetening identified by comparative proteomics and association mapping.
BMC plant biology - 7 Aug 2013
Fischer Matthias, Schreiber Lena, Colby Thomas, Kuckenberg Markus, Tacke Eckhard, Hofferbert Hans-Reinhard, Schmidt Jürgen, Gebhardt Christiane
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Higher plants evolved various strategies to adapt to chilling conditions. Among other transcriptional and metabolic responses to cold temperatures plants accumulate a range of solutes including sugars. The accumulation of the reducing sugars glucose and fructose in mature potato tubers during exposure to cold temperatures is referred to as cold induced sweetening (CIS). The molecular basis of CIS in...
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