Sucrose metabolism in developing oil-rich tubers of Cyperus esculentus: comparative transcriptome analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cyperus esculentus is unique in that it can accumulate significant amounts of oil, starch and sugar as major storage reserves in tubers with high tuber yield and therefore considered as a novel model to study carbon allocation into different storage reserves in underground sink tissues such as tubers and roots. Sucrose (Suc) plays a central role in control of carbon flux toward biosynthesis of different storage reserves; however, it remains unclear for the molecular mechanism underlying Suc metabolism in underground oil-rich storage tissues. In the present study, a comprehensive transcriptome analysis of C. esculentus oil tuber compared to other plant oil- or carbohydrate-rich storage tissues was made for the expression patterns of genes related to the Suc metabolism.

SUBMITTER: Yang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056992 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature