Effect of defoliation on fructan pattern and fructan metabolizing enzymes in young chicory plants (Cichorium intybus)

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-163

  De Roover, Joke ^a   Van Laere, André ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a Botany Institute   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUCTAN 1 EXOHYDROLASE; FRUCTAN; METABOLISM; SUCROSE 1 FRUCTOSYL TRANSFERASE; SUCROSE;

CICHORIUM INTYBUS;

EID: 0032840093     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.106202.x     Document Type: Article

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