Recent progress toward understanding biosynthesis of the amylopectin crystal

Plant Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 989-997

  Myers, Alan M ^a   Morell, Matthew K ^b   James, Martha G ^a   Ball, Steven G ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL;

EID: 0034003526     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.122.4.989     Document Type: Review

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