Claim · model-written summary
Photosynthesis decreased by 75% in transformed plants, not through feedback regulation of sucrose synthesis.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume0 - Outcome
- photosynthesise4
- Direction
- decreasee4
- Value
- 75%e4
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Verbatim
e0“In potato plants (Solanum tuberosum)”
e4“the observed 75% decrease of photosynthesis”
Title
Apoplastic Expression of Yeast-Derived Invertase in Potato
Dieter Heineke; Uwe Sonnewald; Dirk Büssis; et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1992. doi:10.1104/pp.100.1.301
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Transgenic potato plants had crinkled leaves, a reduced growth rate and fewer tubers.
- Observation Glucose and fructose in the leaf apoplast of transformed plants rose by a factor of 20.
- Observation Sucrose in the leaf apoplast of transformed plants declined 20-fold.
- Observation Osmolality of leaf cell sap in transformed plants rose from 250 to 350 mosmol/kg.
- Observation Amino acid and protein contents in tubers of transformed plants were elevated.