A minor form of starch branching enzyme in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers has a major effect on starch structure: Cloning and characterisation of multiple forms of SBE A

Plant Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-171

  Jobling, Stephen A ^b   Schwall, Gerhard P ^b   Westcott, Roger J ^b   Sidebottom, Christopher M ^b   Debet, Martine ^b   Gidley, Michael J ^b   Jeffcoat, Roger ^a   Safford, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL STARCH AND CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; ANTISENSE RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOSPHORUS; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; STARCH BRANCHING ENZYME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033119569     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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