Claim · model-written summary
Amino acid and protein contents in tubers of transformed plants were elevated.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume0 - Organ / stage
- tuberse6
- Outcome
- amino acid and protein contentse6
- Direction
- elevatede6
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In potato plants (Solanum tuberosum)”
e6“the amino acid and protein contents in the tubers were found to be elevated”
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 Photosynthesis decreased by 75% in transformed plants, not through feedback regulation of sucrose synthesis.
- Observation Osmolality of leaf cell sap in transformed plants rose from 250 to 350 mosmol/kg.