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Jun, 2014

The Sugar Transporter Inventory of Tomato: Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis

PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
  • Stefan Reuscher
  • ,
  • Masahito Akiyama
  • ,
  • Tomohide Yasuda
  • ,
  • Haruko Makino
  • ,
  • Koh Aoki
  • ,
  • Daisuke Shibata
  • ,
  • Katsuhiro Shiratake

Volume
55
Number
6
First page
1123
Last page
1141
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1093/pcp/pcu052
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS

The mobility of sugars between source and sink tissues in plants depends on sugar transport proteins. Studying the corresponding genes allows the manipulation of the sink strength of developing fruits, thereby improving fruit quality for human consumption. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is both a major horticultural crop and a model for the development of fleshy fruits. In this article we provide a comprehensive inventory of tomato sugar transporters, including the SUCROSE TRANSPORTER family, the SUGAR TRANSPORTER PROTEIN family, the SUGAR FACILITATOR PROTEIN family, the POLYOL/MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORTER family, the INOSITOL TRANSPORTER family, the PLASTIDIC GLUCOSE TRANSLOCATOR family, the TONOPLAST MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORTER family and the VACUOLAR GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER family. Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing and phylogenetic analyses established a nomenclature for all analyzed tomato sugar transporters. In total we identified 52 genes in tomato putatively encoding sugar transporters. The expression of 29 sugar transporter genes in vegetative tissues and during fruit development was analyzed. Several sugar transporter genes were expressed in a tissue- or developmental stage-specific manner. This information will be helpful to better understand source to sink movement of photoassimilates in tomato. Identification of fruit-specific sugar transporters might be a first step to find novel genes contributing to tomato fruit sugar accumulation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcu052
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24833026
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000338127800008&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1093/pcp/pcu052
  • ISSN : 0032-0781
  • eISSN : 1471-9053
  • Pubmed ID : 24833026
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000338127800008

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