A starch-accumulating mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana deficient in a chloroplastic starch-hydrolysing enzyme

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-365

  Zeeman, Samuel C ^a   Northrop, Fred ^b   Smith, Alison M ^a   Ap Rees, Tom ^b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; AMYLASE; AMYLOPECTIN; BETA AMYLASE; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; MUTANT; PHOSPHORYLASE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PULLULANASE; STARCH;

AMYLASES; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPLASTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HYDROLYSIS; MUTATION; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0032143523     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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