Claim · model-written summary
Metabolite analysis revealed altered amounts of sugar intermediates in potato.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Outcome
- amounts of sugar intermediatese5
- Qualifier
- alterede5
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Verbatim
t0“potato”
e5“Analysis of metabolites revealed altered amounts of sugar intermediates”
Title
Inhibition of plastid PPase and NTT leads to major changes in starch and tuber formation in potato
Mariette Andersson; Helle Turesson; Stéphanie Arrivault; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 2018. doi:10.1093/jxb/ery051
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect In transgenic potato lines, starch and amylose content were lower with StpsPPase down-regulation, which gave the most pronounced effects.
- Intervention effect In transgenic potato lines, granule size was smaller with StpsPPase down-regulation.
- Intervention effect Single-gene down-regulation of StpsPPase or StNTT increased tuber number per plant.
- Intervention effect Single-gene down-regulation of StpsPPase or StNTT gave higher fresh weight yield.
- Intervention effect With both StpsPPase and StNTT inhibited simultaneously, some lines formed only a few, small and distorted tubers.
- Intervention effect StpsPPase down-regulation increased ADP-glucose content in the transgenic lines.
- Observation Intermediates of vitamin C biosynthesis were increased in the transgenic potato lines.
- Mechanism The authors suggest hydrolysis of pyrophosphate by a plastidial PPase is vital for functional starch accumulation in potato tubers.
- Mechanism No additional mechanism for consuming, hydrolysing or exporting PPi exists in the studied potato tissue.
- Mechanism Functional PPi hydrolysis combined with efficient ATP import is essential for potato tuber formation and development.