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Letter to the Editor|06 Nov 2024|OPEN
Tonoplast sugar transporters as key drivers of sugar accumulation, a case study in sugarcane
Michael Tang1,6,8 , Jiang Wang2,3,7,8 , Baskaran Kannan4,5,8 , Niki Maria Koukoulidis4,5 , Yi-Hsuan Lin2,3 , Fredy Altpeter4,5 , , Li-Qing Chen,2,3 ,
1School of Integrative Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
2Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
3Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
4Agronomy Department, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, IFAS, Gainesville, FL 32603, United States.
5DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Gainesville, FL 32603, United States
6Present address of Michael Tang: Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
7Present address of Jiang Wang: Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya, China
8Equal contribution
*Corresponding author. E-mail: altpeter@ufl.edu,lqchen77@illinois.edu

Horticulture Research 12,
Article number: uhae312 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhae312
Views: 2008

Received: 10 Sep 2024
Accepted: 30 Oct 2024
Published online: 06 Nov 2024

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