Alfonso Albacete, Elena Cantero-Navarro, Dominik K Großkinsky, Cintia L Arias, María Encarnación Balibrea, Roque Bru, Lena Fragner, Michel E Ghanem, María de la Cruz González, Jose A Hernández, Cristina Martínez-Andújar, Eric van der Graaff, Wolfram Weckwerth, Günther Zellnig, Francisco Pérez-Alfocea, Thomas Roitsch
Drought stress conditions modify source-sink relations, thereby influencing plant growth, adaptive responses, and consequently crop yield. Invertases are key metabolic enzymes regulating sink activity through the hydrolytic cleavage of sucrose into hexose monomers, thus playing a crucial role in plant growth and development. However, the physiological role of invertases during adaptation to abiotic stress conditions is not yet fully understood. Here it is shown that plant adaptation to drought stress can be markedly improved in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L...
February 2015: Journal of Experimental Botany