The complex network of non-cellulosic carbohydrate metabolism

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-235

  Lytovchenko, Anna ^a   Sonnewald, Uwe ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; REVIEW;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANT TUBERS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 34248146508     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2007.04.002     Document Type: Review

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