Microbial fructan production in transgenic potato plants and tubers

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-46

  Pilon Smits, Elizabeth A H ^a,c   Ebskamp, Michel J M ^a   Jeuken, Marieke J W ^a   Van Der Meer, Ingrid M ^a,b   Visser, Richard G F ^b   Weisbeek, Peter J ^a   Smeekens, Sjef C M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c 111 Koshland Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate metabolism; Fructan; Levansucrase; Potato; Solanaceae; Solanum tuberosum; Transgenics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0002449838     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-6690(95)00051-8     Document Type: Article

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