‘Ganlv 1’ is a new cultivar of Actinidia eriantha selected from the wild natural population, which has advantages moderate taste, high yield, easy peeling and ascorbic acid (AsA) content. In this study, was used to explore changes in fruit quality, soluble sugar components, sucrose metabolism-related enzymes activities enzyme genes’ expression during fruit’s development. The results showed that...

Cotton (Gosspium hirsutum L.) is classified as a salt tolerant crop. However, its yield and fiber quality are negatively affected by soil salinity. Studies on the enzymatic differences in sucrose metabolism under different soil salinity levels are lacking. Therefore, field experiments, using two cotton cultivars, CCRI-79 (salt-tolerant) and Simian 3 (salt-sensitive), were conducted in 2013 and ...

The relative contributions of invertase and sucrose synthase to initial cleavage of phloem-imported sucrose was calculated for sink leaves of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr cv Wye) and sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L. monohybrid). Invertase from yeast hydrolyzed sucrose 4200 times faster than 1'-deoxy-1'-fluorosucrose (FS) while sucrose cleavage by sucrose synthase from developing soybean leaves proc...

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) boll positions on a fruiting branch vary in their contribution to yield and fiber quality. Fiber properties are dependent on deposition of cellulose in the fiber cell wall, but information about the enzymatic differences in sucrose metabolism between these fruiting positions is lacking. Therefore, two cotton cultivars with different sensitivities to low temperatur...

Sucrose cleavage is an essential reaction for higher plant cells to initiate intermediary metabolism and to direct its carbon into the host of essential compounds derived therefrom for maintaining the cells of intact plants. Indeed critical cellular events during their lifetime, such as cell division or growth, are not initiated in the absence of sucrose. As the primary form of systemically tra...

We examined changes in nonstructural carbohydrate biosynthesis and activities of related enzymes in leaves of micropropagated apple plants (Malus domestica Borkh. cv. 'NaganoFuji') in response to water stress, with particular emphasis on the enzymes associated with sorbitol, sucrose and starch metabolism. Water stress resulted in the accumulation of photosynthates in leaves, mainly sorbitol, su...

The pathway of phloem unloading and the metabolism of translocated sucrose were determined in corn (Zea mays) seedling roots. Several lines of evidence show that exogenous sucrose, unlike translocated sucrose, is hydrolyzed in the apoplast prior to uptake into the root cortical cells. These include (a) presence of cell wall invertase activity which represents 20% of the total tissue activity; (...