Example sentences for: sugar-regulated

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  • Soluble sugars, such as glucose and sucrose, have been postulated to act as signaling molecules that help regulate a wide variety of plant developmental and physiological processes [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ] . These processes include flowering [ 14 15 16 17 ] , seed germination [ 18 19 20 ] and photosynthesis [ 21 22 ] . One of the most thoroughly characterized sugar-regulated processes is the breakdown of starch by germinating cereal seeds.

  • Mannose is a glucose analog that has been postulated to affect seed germination [ 19 ] and sugar-regulated gene expression [ 31 32 ] via a signaling pathway that requires hexokinase activity.

  • Proteins postulated to act in control of at least some sugar-regulated processes include hexokinases [ 31 32 33 34 ] and SNF1-related protein kinases [ 35 36 ] . Hexokinases have been suggested to play a role in sugar repression of alpha-amylase activity.

  • Arabidopsis mutants that are defective in sugar-regulated expression of the genes encoding patatin [ 41 ] , beta-amylase [ 42 43 ] , plastocyanin [ 44 ] and the ApL3 subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase [ 45 ] have been isolated.


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