Distinct regulation of sucrose: Sucrose-1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST) and sucrose: Fructan-6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT), the key enzymes of fructan synthesis in barley leaves: 1-SST as the pacemaker

New Phytologist

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 735-748

  Nagaraj, Vinay J ^a   Altenbach, Denise ^a   Galati, Virginie ^a   Lüscher, Marcel ^a,b   Meyer, Alain D ^a,b   Boller, Thomas ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barley (Hordeum vulgare); Carbohydrate metabolism; Fructan; Graminan; Invertase; Regulation; Sucrose: fructan 6 fructosyltransferase (6 SFT); Sucrose: sucrose 1 fructosyltransferase (1 SST)

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; BOTANY; ENZYME;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; PICHIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; POACEAE;

EID: 1042267089     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.00995.x     Document Type: Article

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