Sucrose metabolism plays pivotal roles in development, stress response, and yield
formation, mainly by generating a range of sugars as metabolites to fuel growth and …

Sucrose cleavage is vital to multicellular plants, not only for the allocation of crucial carbon
resources but also for the initiation of hexose-based sugar signals in importing structures …

A new method is presented in which gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
(GC–MS) allows the quantitative and qualitative detection of more than 150 compounds …

Coordination of development with the availability of nutrients, such as soluble sugars, may
help ensure an adequate supply of building materials and energy with which to carry out …

Recent advances have provided new insights into how sucrose is moved from sites of
synthesis to sites of utilisation or storage in sink organs. Sucrose transporters play a central …

Sink organs of most plant species are supplied with carbon and energy in the form of
sucrose. The channeling of sucrose into sink metabolism requires its cleavage by several …

In the present climate of functional elucidation of entire genomes by technologies
comprising mass sequencing, insertional mutagenesis, and RNA expression profiling …

The development and maturation of tomato fruits has received considerable attention
because of both the uniqueness of such processes to the biology of plants and the …

Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

Many plant developmental, physiological and metabolic processes are regulated, at least in
part, by nutrient availability. In particular, alterations in the availability of soluble sugars, such …