SUT sucrose and MST monosaccharide transporter inventory of the Selaginella genome

While most metazoa mainly use hexose transporters to acquire hexoses from their diet and as a transport form for distributing carbon and energy within their bodies, insects use trehalose and plants use sucrose as their major form for translocation. Plant genomes contain at least three families of mo...

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Main Authors: Sylvie eLalonde, Wolf B Frommer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2012.00024/full