Demonstration of in vitro starch branching enzyme activity for a 51/50-kDa polypeptide isolated from developing barley (Hordeum vulgare) caryopses

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 474-483

  Sun, Chuanxin ^a   Sathish, P ^a   Ek, Bo ^b   Deiber, Anna ^a   Jansson, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barley caryopses; Hordeum vulgare; Starch branching enzymes; Starch synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006115564     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1996.tb00461.x     Document Type: Article

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