Cloning of a Cicer arietinum β-galactosidase with pectin-degrading function

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 718-725

  Esteban, Rocío ^a   Dopico, Berta ^a   Muñoz, Francisco J ^a   Romo, Silvia ^a   Martín, Ignacio ^a   Labrador, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cicer arietinum; Elongation; Epicotyls; Galactosidases; Growth

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL WALL; CICER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

CICER ARIETINUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0041696470     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg087     Document Type: Article

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