The starch-debranching enzymes isoamylase and pullulanase are both involved in amylopectin biosynthesis in rice endosperm

Plant Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 399-409

  Kubo, Akiko ^a,b   Fujita, Naoko ^a,e   Harada, Kyuya ^b   Matsuda, Toshiaki ^c   Satoh, Hikaru ^d   Nakamura, Yasunori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENDOSPERM; ISOAMYLASE; PLANT GENETICS; PULLULANASE;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0032748917     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.2.399     Document Type: Article

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