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The tomato plastidic fructokinase SlFRK3 plays a role in xylem development.
The New phytologist - 1 Mar 2016
Stein Ofer, Damari-Weissler Hila, Secchi Francesca, Rachmilevitch Shimon, German Marcelo A, Yeselson Yelena, Amir Rachel, Schaffer Arthur, Holbrook N Michele, Aloni Roni, Zwieniecki Maciej A, Granot David
Abstract excerpt
Plants have two kinds of fructokinases (FRKs) that catalyze the key step of fructose phosphorylation, cytosolic and plastidic. The major cytosolic tomato FRK, SlFRK2, is essential for the development of xylem vessels. In order to study the role of SlFRK3, which encodes the only plastidic FRK, we generated transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) plants with RNAi suppression of SlFRK3 as well as plants expressing...
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