Expression of β-amylase from alfalfa taproots

Plant Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1495-1505

  Gana, Joyce A ^a   Kalengamaliro, Newton E ^a   Cunningham, Suzanne M ^a   Volenec, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA AMYLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; STARCH; SUCROSE;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-AMYLASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STARCH; SUCROSE;

EID: 0032238082     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.118.4.1495     Document Type: Article

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