Changes in carbohydrate metabolism and assimilate export in starch-excess mutants of Arabidopsis

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1445-1453

  Zeeman, Samuel C ^a,b   Rees, T Ap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Assimilate partitioning; Chloroplasts; Photosynthesis; Starch degradation; Starch synthesis; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0344642523     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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