Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding (1→4)-β-xylan endohydrolases from the aleurone layer of germinated barley (Hordeum vulgare)

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1163-1172

  Banik, Mitali ^a   Garrett, Thomas P J ^b   Fincher, Geoffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arabinoxylans; cDNAs; Germination; Plant xylanases; Primary structure

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; ISOENZYME; PRIMER DNA; XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; GENES, PLANT; GERMINATION; HORDEUM; ISOENZYMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XYLOSIDASES;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 0030238170     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00040833     Document Type: Article

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