Glycosyltransferases and cell wall biosynthesis: Novel players and insights

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-295

  Scheible, Wolf Rüdiger ^a   Pauly, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. thaliana fucosyltransferase1; A. thaliana xylosyltransferase1; Adp glucose pyrophosphorylase; Agp; Atfut1; Atxt1; callose synthase gene; Cals; Cesa; Cfl1; cotton fks1 like1; Csc; gene encoding the catalytic subunit of cellulose synthase

Indexed keywords

CALLOSE; CELLULOSE; GLUCAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GOLGI COMPLEX; METABOLISM; PLANT; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CELLULOSE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GLUCANS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GOLGI APPARATUS; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 2442610818     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.03.006     Document Type: Review

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