Characterization of chitinases able to rescue somatic embryos of the temperature-sensitive carrot variant ts11

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 631-645

  Kragh, Karsten M ^a   Hendriks, Theo ^b   De Jong, Anke J ^b,e   Schiavo, Fiorella Lo ^c   Bucherna, Nándor ^b,f   Højrup, Peter ^d   Mikkelsen, Jörn D ^a   De Vries, Sacco C ^b  

^a DANISCO A S   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e Danisco Ingredients ^*  (Netherlands)

^f SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

carrot; class I acidic endochitinase; class II acidic endochitinase; plant class IV endochitinase (EC 3.2.1.14); somatic embryos; ts11

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; DAUCUS CAROTA;

EID: 0030175105     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00042235     Document Type: Article

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