Transcript profiles uncover temporal and stress-induced changes of metabolic pathways in germinating sugar beet seeds

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>With a cultivation area of 1.75 Mio ha and sugar yield of 16.7 Mio tons in 2006, sugar beet is a crop of great economic importance in Europe. The productivity of sugar beet is determined significantly by seed vigour and field emergen...

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Main Authors: Windhövel Andrea, Fischer Uwe, Meinhard Juliane, Menze Andreas, Pestsova Elena, Westhoff Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-12-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/8/122