Abstract
Plants have a constitutive demand for sulfur to synthesize sulfur-containing amino acids, numerous essential metabolites and secondary metabolites for growth and development. Leaf senescence in plants is a highly coordinated physiological process and is critical for nutrient redistribution from senescing leaves to newly formed organs including developing seeds which act as sinks. In order to study the metabolism and recycling of sulfur-containing compounds during leaf senescence, we analyzed the changes of sulfur-containing metabolites using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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We thank the Max Planck Society (MPG) for funding. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Takayuki Tohge, Salma Balazadeh, Alexander Erban, Patrick Giavalisco, Joachim Kopka, Bernd Mueller-Roeber and Alisdair R. Fernie in obtaining the metabolite profiles and discussing the results.
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Watanabe, M., Hoefgen, R. (2015). Metabolic Analysis of Sulfur Metabolism During Leaf Senescence. In: De Kok, L., Hawkesford, M., Rennenberg, H., Saito, K., Schnug, E. (eds) Molecular Physiology and Ecophysiology of Sulfur. Proceedings of the International Plant Sulfur Workshop. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20137-5_10
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