reviewPlant Signaling & BehaviorMay 1, 2009BRONZE OA

Soluble sugars

National University of Tucumán · Instituto de Fisiología Vegetal · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

Plants are autotrophic and photosynthetic organisms that both produce and consume sugars. Soluble sugars are highly sensitive to environmental stresses, which act on the supply of carbohydrates from source organs to sink ones. Sucrose and hexoses both play dual functions in gene regulation as exemplified by the up-regulation of growth-related genes and down-regulation of stress-related genes. Although coordinately regulated by sugars, these growth- and stress-related genes are up-regulated or down-regulated through HXK-dependent and/or HXK-independent pathways. Sucrose-non-fermenting-1- (SNF1-) related protein pathway, analogue to the protein kinase (SNF-) yeast-signalling pathway, seems also involved in sugar…

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