The Cinderella story of sucrose hydrolysis: alkaline/neutral invertases, from cyanobacteria to unforeseen roles in plant cytosol and organelles

WA Vargas, GL Salerno - Plant Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, considerable advances have been made in understanding the
crucial role of sucrose and the regulation of its metabolism in plant life. Recent studies in …

Mobile forms of carbon in trees: metabolism and transport

PG Dominguez, T Niittylä - Tree Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Plants constitute 80% of the biomass on earth, and almost two-thirds of this biomass is found
in wood. Wood formation is a carbon (C)-demanding process and relies on C transport from …

The potential roles of acid invertase family in Dendrobium huoshanense: Identification, evolution, and expression analyses under abiotic stress

C Song, Y Zhang, W Zhang, MA Manzoor… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dendrobium huoshanense, a traditional Chinese medicine prized for its horticultural and
medicinal properties, thrives in an unfavorable climate and is exposed to several adverse …

Structure and Expression Analysis of Sucrose Phosphate Synthase, Sucrose Synthase and Invertase Gene Families in Solanum lycopersicum

Y Duan, L Yang, H Zhu, J Zhou, H Sun… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS), sucrose synthase (SUS) and invertase (INV) are all
encoded by multigene families. In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), a comprehensive …

A cytosolic invertase is required for normal growth and cell development in the model legume, Lotus japonicus

T Welham, J Pike, I Horst, E Flemetakis… - Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Neutral/alkaline invertases are a subgroup, confined to plants and cyanobacteria, of a
diverse family of enzymes. A family of seven closely-related genes, LjINV1–LjINV7, is …

Genome-Wide Identification of the Invertase Gene Family in Populus

Z Chen, K Gao, X Su, P Rao, X An - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Invertase plays a crucial role in carbohydrate partitioning and plant development as it
catalyses the irreversible hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose. The invertase …

Global Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles in Developing Physic Nut (Jatropha curcas L.) Seeds

H Jiang, P Wu, S Zhang, C Song, Y Chen, M Li, Y Jia… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) is an oilseed plant species with high potential
utility as a biofuel. Furthermore, following recent sequencing of its genome and the …

Cytosolic invertase contributes to the supply of substrate for cellulose biosynthesis in developing wood

U Rende, W Wang, ML Gandla, LJ Jönsson… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon for cellulose biosynthesis is derived from sucrose. Cellulose is synthesized from
uridine 5′‐diphosphoglucose (UDP‐glucose), but the enzyme (s) responsible for the initial …

Molecular cloning, structure, phylogeny and expression analysis of the invertase gene family in sugarcane

L Wang, Y Zheng, S Ding, Q Zhang, Y Chen, J Zhang - BMC plant biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes regulating sucrose metabolism and
are here revealed to be involved in responses to environmental stress in plants. To date …

Phylogenetic footprint of the plant clock system in angiosperms: evolutionary processes of Pseudo-Response Regulators

N Takata, S Saito, CT Saito, M Uemura - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Plant circadian clocks regulate many photoperiodic and diurnal responses that
are conserved among plant species. The plant circadian clock system has been uncovered …