Basic mutant information
Mutant name	sweetie
Mutant/Transgenic	mutant
Ecotype	C24
Mutagenesis type	T-DNA insertion_knock out
(Semi-)Dominant/Recessive	recessive
Description	sweetie over-accumulates sugars and starch.Premature sugar-mediated senescence is induced in sweetie.
References	1: Veyres N, Danon A, Aono M, Galliot S, Karibasappa YB, Diet A, Grandmottet F, Tamaoki M, Lesur D, Pilard S, Boitel-Conti M, Sangwan-Norreel BS, Sangwan RS The Arabidopsis sweetie mutant is affected in carbohydrate metabolism and defective in the control of growth, development and senescence. Plant J. 2008 Aug;55(4):665-86
Mutated genes
Locus name	AT1G67140
Alias	SWEETIE
Organism	Arabidopsis thaliana
Description	SWEETIE (SWEETIE); FUNCTIONS IN: binding; INVOLVED IN: trehalose metabolic process, carbohydrate metabolic process, starch metabolic process; LOCATED IN: cytosol; EXPRESSED IN: 25 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: HEAT (InterPro:IPR000357), Armadillo-type fold (InterPro:IPR016024); Has 7920 Blast hits to 5141 proteins in 477 species: Archae - 32; Bacteria - 1176; Metazoa - 3031; Fungi - 970; Plants - 368; Viruses - 117; Other Eukaryotes - 2226 (source: NCBI BLink).
Phenotype information
Natural senescence Biomass:fresh weight affected Biomass:leaves affected Leaf color yellow