Sugar transporters in plants: new insights and discoveries

BT Julius, KA Leach, TM Tran, RA Mertz… - Plant and Cell …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Carbohydrate partitioning is the process of carbon assimilation and distribution from source
tissues, such as leaves, to sink tissues, such as stems, roots and seeds. Sucrose, the …

Understanding and manipulating sucrose phloem loading, unloading, metabolism, and signalling to enhance crop yield and food security

DM Braun, L Wang, YL Ruan - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Sucrose is produced in, and translocated from, photosynthetically active leaves (sources) to
support non-photosynthetic tissues (sinks), such as develo** seeds, fruits, and tubers …

SWEET sugar transporters for phloem transport and pathogen nutrition

LQ Chen - New Phytologist, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many intercellular solute transport processes require an apoplasmic step, that is, efflux from
one cell and subsequent uptake by an adjacent cell. Cellular uptake transporters have been …

Overexpression of the Vacuolar Sugar Carrier AtSWEET16 Modifies Germination, Growth, and Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis

PAW Klemens, K Patzke, J Deitmer, L Spinner… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Here, we report that SUGARS WILL EVENTUALLY BE EXPORTED TRANSPORTER
(SWEET16) from Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is a vacuole-located carrier …

Tomato sucrose transporter SlSUT4 participates in flowering regulation by modulating gibberellin biosynthesis

Y Liang, J Bai, Z **e, Z Lian, J Guo, F Zhao… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The functions of sucrose transporters (SUTs) differ among family members. The
physiological function of SUT1 has been studied intensively, while that of SUT4 in various …

Sucrose transporters of higher plants

C Kühn, CPL Grof - Current opinion in plant biology, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …

Sucrose: metabolite and signaling molecule

J Wind, S Smeekens, J Hanson - Phytochemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
Sucrose is a molecule that is synthesized only by oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. In
plants, sucrose is synthesized in source tissues and then can be transported to sink tissues …

Membrane-transport systems for sucrose in relation to whole-plant carbon partitioning

BG Ayre - Molecular plant, 2011 - cell.com
Sucrose is the principal product of photosynthesis used for the distribution of assimilated
carbon in plants. Transport mechanisms and efficiency influence photosynthetic productivity …

Ectopic expression of VvMybPA2 promotes proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in grapevine and suggests additional targets in the pathway

N Terrier, L Torregrosa, A Ageorges, S Vialet… - Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Grapevine (Vitis vinifera) proanthocyanidins contribute to plant defense mechanisms against
biotic stress and also play a critical role in organoleptic properties of wine. In grapevine …

Sugar transporters in plants and in their interactions with fungi

J Doidy, E Grace, C Kühn, F Simon-Plas, L Casieri… - Trends in Plant …, 2012 - cell.com
Sucrose and monosaccharide transporters mediate long distance transport of sugar from
source to sink organs and constitute key components for carbon partitioning at the whole …