Unraveling the selective transport of sugar and hormone that underlies male fertility in plants (IMAGE)

Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University

Unraveling the selective transport of sugar and hormone that underlies male fertility in plants

Caption

A shift in substrate selectivity of SWEET13 by structure-guided mutagenesis revealed that sucrose is an active compound in male fertility.

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Issey Takahashi

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