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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 55, Issue 408, Pages 2495-2503Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh257
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antisense; Arabidopsis; fructose-1; 6-bisphosphatase; nitrogen; sucrose; transgenic
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The pea chloroplastic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase) antisense construct reduced the endogenous level of expression of the corresponding Arabidopsis thaliana gene. The reduction of foliar FBPase activity in the transformants T-2 and T-3 generation ranged from 20% to 42%, and correlated with lower levels of FBPase protein. FBPase antisense plants displayed different phenotypes with a clear increase in leaf fresh weight. Measurements of photosynthesis revealed a higher carbon-assimilation rate. Decreased FBPase activity boosted the foliar carbohydrate contents, with a shift in the sucrose:starch ratio, which reached a maximum of 0.99 when the activity loss was 41%. Nitrate reductase activity decreased simultaneously with an increase in glutamine synthetase activity, which could be explained in terms of ammonium assimilation regulation by sugar content. These results suggest the role of FBPase as a key enzyme in CO2 assimilation, and also in co-ordinating carbon and nitrogen metabolism.
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