Arabidopsis AtcwINV3 and 6 are not invertases but are fructan exohydrolases (FEHs) with different substrate specificities

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 432-443

  De Coninck, Barbara ^a   Le Roy, Katrien ^a   Francis, Isolde ^a   Clerens, Stefan ^a   Vergauwen, Rudy ^a   Halliday, Aileen M ^b   Smith, Steven M ^b   Van Laere, André ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cell wall invertase; Defence; Inulin; Levan; Pichia pastoris

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PICHIA PASTORIS;

EID: 15944420580     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2004.01281.x     Document Type: Article

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