Doubled sugar content in sugarcane plants modified to produce a sucrose isomer

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-117

  Wu, Luguang ^a   Birch, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Isomaltulose; Saccharum spp.; Source sink relationships; Sucrose isomerase; Sugar metabolism; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SUCROSE; SUCROSE ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SUGARCANE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHARUM; SUCROSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; SACCHARUM;

EID: 33845757108     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2006.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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