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Maize Carbohydrate partitioning defective1 impacts carbohydrate distribution, callose accumulation, and phloem function.
Journal of experimental botany - 18 Jul 2018
Julius Benjamin T, Slewinski Thomas L, Baker R Frank, Tzin Vered, Zhou Shaoqun, Bihmidine Saadia, Jander Georg, Braun David M
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Plants synthesize carbohydrates in photosynthetic tissues, with the majority of plants transporting sucrose to non-photosynthetic tissues to sustain growth and development. While the anatomical, biochemical, and physiological processes regulating sucrose long-distance transport are well characterized, little is known concerning the genes controlling whole-plant carbohydrate partitioning. To identify loci...
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