Adenosine diphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase, a rate-limiting step in starch biosynthesis

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 574-580

  Greene, Thomas W ^a   Curtis Hannah, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase; Amylopectin; Amylose; Regulatory steps; Starch biosynthetic mutants

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 3543081468     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030417.x     Document Type: Article

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