Term Name: sucrose catabolic process
Synonyms: sucrose breakdown, sucrose catabolism, sucrose degradation
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of sucrose, the disaccharide fructofuranosyl-glucopyranoside.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0005987]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: disaccharide catabolic process sucrose metabolic process
has subtype: glycolytic process from sucrose sucrose catabolic process to fructose-6-phosphate and glucose-6-phosphate sucrose catabolic process to fructose-6-phosphate through glucose and fructose sucrose catabolic process via 3'-ketosucrose