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Table 2 Ratios of glucose to fructose in bud (B) and stem (S) ends of WT and RNAi tubers

From: Sugar metabolism, chip color, invertase activity, and gene expression during long-term cold storage of potato (Solanum tuberosum) tubers from wild-type and vacuolar invertase silencing lines of Katahdin

 

WT

RNAi

Temperature (°C)

B

S

B

S

9

0.21 + 0.01

0.42 ± 0.05

0.45 ± 0.05

0.39 ± 0.03

7

0.28 + 0.02

0.43 ± 0.06

0.34 ± 0.03

0.35 ± 0.02

5

0.34 ± 0.04

0.50 ± 0.06

0.41 ± 0.03

0.39 ± 0.03

3

0.45 ± 0.03

0.55 ± 0.05

0.48 ± 0.02

0.50 ± 0.03

  1. Values are averages ± standard error of 18 (WT) or 54 (RNAi) samples collected in January through April. Tubers were harvested on October 1, 2010 and sampled in 2011.