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A Similar Dichotomy of Sugar Modulation and Developmental Expression Affects Both Paths of Sucrose Metabolism: Evidence from a Maize Invertase Gene Family.

J. Xu, W. T. Avigne, D. R. McCarty, K. E. Koch
J. Xu
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Fifield Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611.
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W. T. Avigne
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Fifield Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611.
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D. R. McCarty
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Fifield Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611.
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K. E. Koch
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Fifield Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611.
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Published July 1996. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.8.7.1209

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Invertase and sucrose synthase catalyze the two known paths for the first step in carbon use by sucrose-importing plant cells. The hypothesis that sugar-modulated expression of these genes could provide a means of import adjustment was initially suggested based on data from sucrose synthases alone; however, this hypothesis remained largely conjectural without critical evidence for invertases. Toward this end, a family of maize invertases was cloned and characterized. Here, we show that invertases are indeed sugar modulated and, surprisingly, like the sucrose synthase genes, fall into two classes with contrasting sugar responses. In both families, one class of genes is upregulated by increasing carbohydrate supply (Sucrose synthase1 [Sus1] and Invertase2 [Ivr2]), whereas a second class in the same family is repressed by sugars and upregulated by depletion of this resource (Shrunken1 [Sh1] and Invertase1 [Ivr1]). The two classes also display differential expression during development, with sugar-enhanced genes (Sus1 and Ivr2) expressed in many importing organs and sugar-repressed, starvation-tolerant genes (Sh1 and Ivr1) upregulated primarily during reproductive development. Both the Ivr1 and Ivr2 invertase mRNAs are abundant in root tips, very young kernels, silk, anthers, and pollen, where a close relationship is evident between changes in message abundance and soluble invertase activity. During development, patterns of expression shift as assimilate partitioning changes from elongating silks to newly fertilized kernels. Together, the data support a model for integrating expression of genes differentially responsive to carbohydrate availability (i.e., feast and famine conditions) with developmental signals. The demonstration that similar regulatory patterns occur in both paths of sucrose metabolism indicates a potential to influence profoundly the adjustment of carbon resource allocation.

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A Similar Dichotomy of Sugar Modulation and Developmental Expression Affects Both Paths of Sucrose Metabolism: Evidence from a Maize Invertase Gene Family.
J. Xu, W. T. Avigne, D. R. McCarty, K. E. Koch
The Plant Cell Jul 1996, 8 (7) 1209-1220; DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.7.1209

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A Similar Dichotomy of Sugar Modulation and Developmental Expression Affects Both Paths of Sucrose Metabolism: Evidence from a Maize Invertase Gene Family.
J. Xu, W. T. Avigne, D. R. McCarty, K. E. Koch
The Plant Cell Jul 1996, 8 (7) 1209-1220; DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.7.1209
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