Fructan: More than a reserve carbohydrate?

Plant Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 351-359

  Vijn, Irma ^a,b   Smeekens, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTAN;

EID: 0033150127     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.120.2.351     Document Type: Review

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