Isolation of sucrose: Sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST) from barley (Hordeum vulgare)

New Phytologist

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 225-232

  LUscher M ^a   Hochstrasser, U ^a   Boller, T ^a   Wiemken, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barley; Cereal; Fructan metabolism; Graminan; Grass; Hordeum vulgare; Sucrose; Sucrose fructosyltransferase (1 SST)

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 2342668269     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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