Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (S1): 261-270. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20194122

Special Issue: Cultivation & Physiology

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Advances in Physiological and Biochemical Functions of Plant Sucrose Synthase

WANG Wei1,2, CHENG Yuan2, YE Qingjing2, YAO Zhuping2, WANG Rongqing2, RUAN Meiying2, ZHOU Guozhi2, LIU Dandan1, WAN Hongjian2   

  1. 1 School of Agriculture,Yunnan University,Kunming 650504,China
    2 State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products,Institute of Vegetables,Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences,China-Australia Research Centre for Crop Improvement,Hangzhou 310021,China
  • Received:2023-03-09 Published:2023-12-28

Abstract:

As one of the main products of photosynthesis,sucrose has a variety of physiological functions in plants.As a group of glycosyltransferase enzymes,sucrose synthase plays an important role in the process of sucrose metabolism.In plants,sucrose synthase reversibly catalyzes the decomposition of sucrose and nucleoside diphosphate(NDP)to produce nucleoside diphosphate glucose(NDPG)and fructose.This reaction is the most important rate-limiting step in sugar metabolism.Sucrose synthase exists in the form of a gene family in plants.Phylogeny shows that there are three subgroups of sucrose synthase,and different subgroups have different expression patterns.Recent studies have shown that sucrose synthase has several major physiological functions in plants,such as participating in the synthesis of macromolecular sugars,response to adversity,participating in reproductive growth and regulating fruit quality.This article reviews the research progress of sucrose synthase in recent years,and looks forward to future research directions in order to provide a reference for future research.

Key words: Sucrose synthase, Physiological function, Research progress, Systematic evolution

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WANG Wei, CHENG Yuan, YE Qingjing, YAO Zhuping, WANG Rongqing, RUAN Meiying, ZHOU Guozhi, LIU Dandan, WAN Hongjian. Advances in Physiological and Biochemical Functions of Plant Sucrose Synthase[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2023, 38(S1): 261-270. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20194122.

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