Properties of fructan:fructan 1-fructosyltransferases from chicory and globe thistle, two asteracean plants storing greatly different types of inulin

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 391-401

  Vergauwen, Rudy ^a   Van Laere, André ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INSULIN; KINETIC ENERGY;

FRUCTAN PATTERNS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ASTERACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICHORIUM; CICHORIUM INTYBUS; CIRSIUM; CYNARA; CYNARA SCOLYMUS; ECHINOPS RITRO; HELIANTHUS TUBEROSUS; SCOLYMUS;

EID: 0141563515     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.026807     Document Type: Article

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