Patterns of fructan synthesized by onion fructan: Fructan 6G-fructosyltransferase expressed in tobacco BY2 cells - Is fructan: Fructan 1-fructosyltransferase needed in onion?

New Phytologist

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-67

  Ritsema, Tita ^a   Joling, Jeanine ^a   Smeekens, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fructan; Fructan: fructan 6G fructosyltransferase (6G FFT); Fructosyltransferases; Inulin neo series; Kestose; Onion (Allium cepa); Tobacco BY2 cells

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM CEPA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0141795510     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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