Changes in sugars and activities of sucrose phosphate synthase, sucrose synthase, and invertase during potato tuber (Russet Burbank) reconditioning at 10 °C in air and 2.53 kPa oxygen after storage for 28 days at 1 °C

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 311-316

  Illeperuma, Charmara ^a,b   Schlimme, Donald ^a   Solomos, Theophanes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Invertase; Sucrose synthase; Sucrose phosphate synthase; Sugars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031915377     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.123.2.311     Document Type: Article

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