Claim · model-written summary
Heat girdling caused significant starch accumulation at the light-cycle start.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentat0 - Treatment
- heat girdlingt0
- Outcome
- starch accumulatione0
- Direction
- accumulatione0
- Qualifier
- beginning of the light cyclee0
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Verbatim
e0“The inhibition of starch remobilization caused significant starch accumulation at the beginning of the light cycle”
t0“heat girdling in cassava”
Title
Transcriptional response to petiole heat girdling in cassava
Yang Zhang; Zehong Ding; Fangfang Ma; et al. Scientific Reports 2015. doi:10.1038/srep08414
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Heat girdling inhibited photosynthesis.
- Intervention effect Heat girdling affected intracellular sugar levels.
- Intervention effect Heat treatment significantly decreased expression of photosynthesis-related genes.
- Intervention effect Heat treatment significantly decreased expression of N-metabolism and chlorophyll biosynthesis genes.
- Intervention effect Heat treatment induced expression of TCA cycle and mitochondrial electron transport genes.
- Intervention effect Heat treatment induced expression of flavonoid biosynthesis genes.