Biosynthesis of UDP-glucuronic acid in developing soybean embryos: Possible role of UDP-sugar pyrophosphorylase

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 200-211

  Litterer, Lynn A ^a   Plaisance, Kathryn L ^a   Schnurr, Judy A ^b   Storey, Kathleen K ^a   Jung, Hans Joachim G ^a,b   Gronwald, John W ^a,b   Somers, David A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; ENZYMES; FOOD PRODUCTS; OXIDATION; RNA; SUGARS;

GLUCURONIC ACID; KINETIC CONSTANTS; MYO-INOSITOL OXIDATION (MIO); SOYBEAN EMBRYOS;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

GLYCINE MAX; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 33748753569     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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