Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase action is high in the root elongation zone and in the trichoblasts of all vascular plants from Selaginella to Zea mays

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 381, 2003, Pages 335-344

  Vissenberg, K ^a   Van Sandt, V ^a   Fry, S C ^b   Verbelen, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Club mosses; Ferns; Roots; Seed plants; Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase hydrolase (XTH)

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; ENZYME KINETICS; GROWTH KINETICS; SEED;

ROOT ELONGATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EUPHYLLOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; SELAGINELLA; SELAGINELLACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037299494     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg024     Document Type: Article

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