Matrix polysaccharide precursors in Arabidopsis cell walls are synthesized by alternate pathways with organ-specific expression patterns

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 537-546

  Seitz, Beate ^a   Klos, Christoph ^a   Wurm, Marita ^a   Tenhaken, Raimund ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; ENZYMIC OXIDATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCURONIC ACID; INOSITOL; MATRIX POLYSACCHARIDE; PRECURSOR; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; INOSITOL; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033998513     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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