Sugar transporters in plants and in their interactions with fungi

Title: Sugar transporters in plants and in their interactions with fungi
Creator: Doidy, Joan; Grace, Emily; Kuhn, Christina; Simon-Plas, Francoise; Casieri, Leonardo; Wipf, Daniel
Relation: Trends in Plant Science Vol. 17, Issue 7, p. 413-422
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2012.03.009
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Sucrose and monosaccharide transporters mediate long distance transport of sugar from source to sink organs and constitute key components for carbon partitioning at the whole plant level and in interactions with fungi. Even if numerous families of plant sugar transporters are defined; efflux capacities, subcellular localization and association to membrane rafts have only been recently reported. On the fungal side, the investigation of sugar transport mechanisms in mutualistic and pathogenic interactions is now emerging. Here, we review the essential role of sugar transporters for distribution of carbohydrates inside plant cells, as well as for plant–fungal interaction functioning. Altogether these data highlight the need for a better comprehension of the mechanisms underlying sugar exchanges between fungi and their host plants.
Subject: sucrose transporters; carbohydrates; plants; fungal genomes
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319049
Identifier: uon:23770
Identifier: ISSN:1360-1385
Language: eng
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