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Trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatases from Arabidopsis thaliana: identification by functional complementation of the yeast tps2 mutant.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Mar 1998
Vogel G, Aeschbacher R A, Müller J, Boller T, Wiemken A
Abstract excerpt
It is currently thought that most flowering plants lack the capacity to synthesize trehalose, a common disaccharide of bacteria, fungi and invertebrates that appears to play a major role in desiccation tolerance. Attempts have therefore been made to render plants more drought-resistant by the expression of microbial genes for trehalose synthesis. It is demonstrated here that Arabidopsis thaliana itself possesses...
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