Sucrose-sucrose fructosyl transferase activity: A direct and rapid colorimetric procedure for the assay of plant extracts

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 699-702

  Puebla, Andrea F ^a   Battaglia, Marina E ^a   Salerno, Graciela L ^a   Pontis, Horacio G ^a  

^a Fundacion para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fructans; Fructosylsucrose; Sucrose sucrose fructosyl transferase (SST); TBA, thiobarbituric acid; Thiobarbituric acid method SST, sucrose sucrose fructosyl transferase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032850985     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0981-9428(00)80101-1     Document Type: Article

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