Vacuolar fructose transporter SWEET17 is critical for root development and drought tolerance

M Valifard, R Le Hir, J Müller, D Scheuring… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Root growth and architecture are markedly influenced by both developmental and
environmental cues. Sugars integrate different stimuli and are essential building blocks and …

SWEET17, a facilitative transporter, mediates fructose transport across the tonoplast of Arabidopsis roots and leaves

WJ Guo, R Nagy, HY Chen, S Pfrunder, YC Yu… - Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Fructose (Fru) is a major storage form of sugars found in vacuoles, yet the molecular
regulation of vacuolar Fru transport is poorly studied. Although SWEET17 (for SUGARS …

Overexpression of the Vacuolar Sugar Carrier AtSWEET16 Modifies Germination, Growth, and Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis

PAW Klemens, K Patzke, J Deitmer, L Spinner… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Here, we report that SUGARS WILL EVENTUALLY BE EXPORTED TRANSPORTER
(SWEET16) from Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is a vacuole-located carrier …

Leaf fructose content is controlled by the vacuolar transporter SWEET17 in Arabidopsis

F Chardon, M Bedu, F Calenge, PAW Klemens… - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
In higher plants, soluble sugars are mainly present as sucrose, glucose, and fructose [1].
Sugar allocation is based on both source-to-sink transport and intracellular transport …

The Arabidopsis vacuolar sugar transporter SWEET2 limits carbon sequestration from roots and restricts Pythium infection

HY Chen, JH Huh, YC Yu, LH Ho, LQ Chen… - The Plant …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plant roots secrete a significant portion of their assimilated carbon into the rhizosphere. The
putative sugar transporter SWEET 2 is highly expressed in Arabidopsis roots. Expression …

Disruption of the sugar transporters AtSWEET11 and AtSWEET12 affects vascular development and freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis

R Le Hir, L Spinner, PAW Klemens, D Chakraborti… - Molecular Plant, 2015 - cell.com
In plants, the transport of sugars from the site of biosynthesis to the site of utilization or
storage relies on sugar transporters located in different subcellular compartments and …

DsSWEET17, a Tonoplast-Localized Sugar Transporter from Dianthus spiculifolius, Affects Sugar Metabolism and Confers Multiple Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis

A Zhou, H Ma, S Feng, S Gong, J Wang - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Plant SWEETs (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters) affect the growth of plants
by regulating the transport of sugar from source to sink and its intracellular transport …

Phosphorylation of SWEET sucrose transporters regulates plant root: shoot ratio under drought

Q Chen, T Hu, X Li, CP Song, JK Zhu, L Chen, Y Zhao - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The root: shoot ratio has long been known to be enhanced in plants under drought stress.
Here we discovered that osmotic stress enhances long-distance sucrose transport to …

AtSWEET4, a hexose facilitator, mediates sugar transport to axial sinks and affects plant development

X Liu, Y Zhang, C Yang, Z Tian, J Li - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Plants transport photoassimilates from source organs to sink tissues through the phloem
translocation pathway. In the transport phloem, sugars that escape from the sieve tubes are …

SlSWEET1a is involved in glucose import to young leaves in tomato plants

LH Ho, PAW Klemens, HE Neuhaus… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sugar allocation from source to sink (young) leaves, critical for plant development, relies on
activities of plasma membrane sugar transporters. However, the key sugar unloading …