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The role of sugar sensing and sugar metabolism during developmental and induced leaf senescence.

Controlling leaf senescense is a hot research area in modern plant physiology research, in order to be able to extend the period of active photosynthesis and overall biomass production. Sugars play an important role during natural and induced senescence. However, the exact roles of the sugar signalling processes involved in plant senescence remain unclear. This project focuses on sugars and sugar metabolizing enzymes in Arabidopsis leaves. More in particular, special attention will be given go to the expression, localization and putative function of neutral invertases (9 genes in Arabidopsis) during senescence and to the regulatory role of defective invertases (3 genes in Arabidopsis).
Date:1 Oct 2008 →  30 Sep 2012
Keywords:Invertase
Disciplines:General biology, Plant biology