Table 1 Transcript accumulation and activity of cell wall invertase, and sugar content in stem bases of cuttings of wild type, pHell and PhAOC-RNAi plants

3CL9414-transcript^a

2^−∆Ct

20.9 ± 10.1

19.4 ± 7.5

23.1 ± 3.0

19.2 ± 4.6

14.6 ± 7.2

17.8 ± 5.4

invertase activity^b

pkat/mg protein

12.6 ± 3.7

14.1 ± 3.3

10.2 ± 5.2

10.1 ± 4.2

9.7 ± 3.9

8.3 ± 4.4

glucose^c

μmol/g f.w.

0.2 ± 0.1

0.2 ± 0.0

0.2 ± 0.1

0.2 ± 0.1

0.2 ± 0.1

0.1 ± 0.1

fructose^c

μmol/g f.w.

0.4 ± 0.3

0.2 ± 0.1

0.1 ± 0.0

0.5 ± 0.4

0.4 ± 0.4

0.5 ± 0.3

sucrose^c

μmol/g f.w.

1.8 ± 0.6

1.6 ± 0.2

1.1 ± 0.6

2.7 ± 0.9

2.3 ± 0.7

2.4 ± 1.2