Sucrose utilization during ovule and seed development of Gasteria verrucosa (Mill.) H. Duval as monitored by sucrose synthase and invertase localization

Protoplasma

Volumn 208, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 136-148

  Wittich, P E ^a   Willemse, M T M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate; Gasteria verrucosa; Invertase activity; Ovule; Seed development; Sucrose synthase activity

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DIFFUSION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; HYDROLYSIS; OVULE; PLANT EMBRYOGENESIS; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

GASTERIA VERRUCOSA;

EID: 0033451317     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01279084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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