Cloning of the fructan biosynthesis pathway of Jerusalem artichoke

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 489-500

  Van der Meer, Ingrid M ^a   Koops, Andries J ^a   Hakkert, Johanna C ^a   Van Tunen, Arjen J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHIMERIC GENE; CLONING; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FRUCTAN FRUCTOSYL TRANSFERASE; FRUCTAN; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUCROSE FRUCTOSYL TRANSFERASE; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FRUCTANS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HELIANTHUS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032142870     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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