Molecular characterization of sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase and sucrose: Fructan 6-fructosyltransferase associated with fructan accumulation in winter wheat during cold hardening

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2297-2305

  Kawakami, Akira ^a   Yoshida, Midori ^a  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fructan; Hardening; Sucrose:fructan 6 fructosyltransferase; Sucrose:sucrose 1 fructosyltransferase; Triticum aestivum L

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INULOSUCRASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SUCROSE; SUCROSE - FRUCTAN 6-FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE FRUCTAN 6 FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COLD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PICHIA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; SEASON; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARBOHYDRATES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRUCTANS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA; PLANT LEAVES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEASONS; SEEDS; SUCROSE; TRITICUM;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PICHIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0013319397     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.2297     Document Type: Article

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