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How plants manage food reserves at night: quantitative models and open questions

In order to cope with night-time darkness, plants during the day allocate part of their photosynthate for storage, often as starch. This stored reserve is then degraded at night to sustain metabolism and growth. However, night-time starch degradation must be tightly controlled, as over-rapid turnove...

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Autores principales: Scialdone, Antonio, Howard, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25873925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00204