Effect of nitrogen concentration on fructan and fructan metabolizing enzymes in young chicory plants (Cichorium intybus)

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 2-8

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID INVERTASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUCTAN 1 EXOHYDROLASE; FRUCTAN; FRUCTAN:FRUCTAN 1 FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; NITROGEN; PLANT GROWTH; SUCROSE; SUCROSE:SUCROSE 1 FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE;

CICHORIUM INTYBUS;

EID: 0032920634     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.105102.x     Document Type: Article

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