Sucrose metabolism during cotyledon development of Vicia faba L. is controlled by the concerted action of both sucrose-phosphate synthase and sucrose synthase: Expression patterns, metabolic regulation and implications for seed development

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 841-850

  Weber, Hans ^a   Buchner, Peter ^a   Borisjuk, Ljudmilla ^a   Wobus, Ulrich ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUS; VICIA FABA;

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSIDASE; HEXOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; SUCROSE; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COTYLEDON; DESICCATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; COTYLEDON; DESICCATION; DNA PRIMERS; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HEXOSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUCROSE;

EID: 0030161090     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.9060841.x     Document Type: Article

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