Effects of nitrogen deficiency on accumulation of fructan and fructan metabolizing enzyme activities in sink and source leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare)

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 339-345

  Wang, Changwen ^a   Tillberg, Jan Eric ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barley; carbohydrate partitioning; FEH; fructan; Hordeum vulgare; invertase; nitrogen deficiency; sink leaves; source leaves; SST; starch; sucrose

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0030465487     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.970218.x     Document Type: Article

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