Cloning, functional expression, and characterization of the raffinose oligosaccharide chain elongation enzyme, galactan:galactan galactosyltransferase, from common bugle leaves

Plant Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1377-1387

  Tapernoux Lüthi, Esther M ^a   Böhm, Andreas ^a   Keller, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; METABOLISM; TOBACCO;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHAIN ELONGATION; PROTOPLASTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AJUGA; AJUGA REPTANS; LAMIACEAE; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 1942437651     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.036210     Document Type: Article

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