In recent years, food frauds and adulterations have increased significantly. This practice is
motivated by fast economical gains and has an enormous impact on public health …

Plants have evolved a multitude of strategies to adjust their growth according to external and
internal signals. Interconnected metabolic and phytohormonal signalling networks allow …

Sugar transport across tonoplasts is essential for maintaining cellular sugar homeostasis
and metabolic balance in plant cells. It remains unclear, however, how this process is …

Sugars, especially glucose and fructose, contribute to the taste and quality of tomato fruits.
These compounds are translocated from the leaves to the fruits and then unloaded into the …

Plants have evolved strategies to tightly regulate metabolism during acclimation to a
changing environment. Low temperature significantly constrains distribution, growth and …

Soluble sugars are the core components of fruit quality, and the degree of sugar
accumulation is largely determined by tonoplast-localized sugar transporters. We previously …

Ovule formation is essential for realizing crop yield because it determines seed number. The
underlying molecular mechanism, however, remains elusive. Here, we show that cell wall …

It has been increasingly recognized that CWIN (cell wall invertase) and sugar transporters
including STP (sugar transport protein) and SWEET (sugar will eventually be exported …

Mycorrhizal plants display enhanced resistance to several pathogens. However, the
molecular mechanisms regulating mycorrhiza-induced resistance (MIR) are still elusive. We …

PpVIN2 is the only vacuolar invertase (VIN) gene in peaches that is sensitive to cold.
PpVIN2 functions in sucrose decomposition and chilling injury (CI), but it is unknown how …