Publications from Chuanxins group

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Jin Y, Hu J, Liu X, Ruan Y, Sun C, Liu C (2017) T-6b allocates more assimilation product for oil synthesis and less for polysaccharide synthesis during the seed development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnology for Biofuels 10:19

Su J, Hu C, Yan X, Jin Y, Chen Z, Guan Q, Wang Y, Zhong D, Jansson C, Wang F,
Schnürer A, Sun C (2015) Expression of barley SUSIBA2 transcription factor yields high-starch low-methane rice. Nature 523, 602-606 (doi:10.1038/nature14673) as a featured paper.

Aslan S, Hofvander P, Dutta P, Sitbon F, Sun C (2015) Transient silencing of the KASII genes is feasible in Nicotiana benthamiana for metabolic engineering of wax ester composition. Scientific Reports 5, 11213 (doi:10.1038/srep11213).

Aslan S, Hofvander P, Dutta P, Sun C, Sitbon F (2015) Increased production of wax esters in transgenic tobacco plants by expression of a fatty acid reductase:wax synthase gene fusion. Transgenic Research 24, 945-953 (doi:10.1007/s11248-015-9893-5).

Källman A, Bertoft R, Koch K, Sun C, Åman P, Andersson R (2015) Starch structure in developing barley endosperm. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 81, 730-735.

Xie Z, Sundström JF, Liu C, Jansson C, Sun C (2014) A selection strategy in plant transformation based on antisense oligodeoxynucleotide inhibition. Plant Journal 77, 954-961.

Aslan S, Sun C, Leonova S, Dutta P, Dörmann P, Domergue F, Stymne S, Hofvander P (2014) Wax esters of different compositions produced via engineering of leaf chloroplast metabolism in Nicotiana benthamiana. Metabolic Engineering 25, 103-112.

Nemeth C, Andersson AAM, Andersson R, Mangelsen E, Sun C, Åman P (2014) Relationship of grain fructan content to degree of polymerisation in different barleys. Food and Nutrition Sciences 5, 581-589.

Zhang M-Z, Fang J-H, Yan X, Liu J, Bao J-S, Fransson G, Andersson R, Jansson C, Åman P, Sun C (2012) Molecular insights into how a deficiency of amylose affects carbon allocation-carbohydrate and oil analysis and gene expression profiling in the seeds of a rice waxy mutant. BMC Plant Biology 12, 230.

Nalawade S, Nalawade S, Liu C, Jansson C, Sun C (2012) Development of an efficient tissue culture after crossing (TCC) system for transgenic improvement of barley as a bioenergy crop. Applied Energy 91, 405-411.

Jansson C, Westerbergh A, Zhang J, Hu X, Sun C (2009) Cassava, a potential biofuel crop in China. Applied Energy 86, S95-S99.

Sun C, Ridderstråle K, Höglund A-S, Larsson L-G, Jansson C (2007) Sweet delivery: sugar translocators as ports of entry for antisense oligodeoxynucleotides in plant cells. Plant Journal 52, 1192-1198.

Sun C, Höglund A-S, Olsson H, Mangelsen E, Jansson C (2005) Antisense ODN inhibition as a potent strategy in plant biology: Identification of SUSIBA2 as a transcriptional activator in plant sugar signaling. Plant Journal 44, 128-138 and the cover image.

Sun C, Palmqvist S, Olsson H, Boren M, Ahlandsberg S, Jansson C (2003) A Novel WRKY Transcription Factor, SUSIBA2, Participates in Sugar Signaling in Barley by Binding to the SURE Elements of the iso1 Promoter. Plant Cell 15, 2076-2092.

Sun C, Puthige S, Ahlandsberg S, Jansson C (1998) The two genes encoding starch branching enzymes IIa and IIb are differentially expressed in barley. Plant Physiology 118, 37-49.

Sun C, Puthige S, Ahlandsberg S, Deiber A, Jansson C (1997) Identification of four starch branching enzymes in barley endosperm: Partial purification of forms I, IIa and IIb. New Phytologist 137, 215-222.

Lee J-Y, Boman A, Sun C, Andersson M, Jörnvall H, Mutt V, Boman HG (1989) Antibacterial peptides from pig intestine: Isolation of a mammalian cecropin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 9519-9162.