Strong increase of foliar inulin occurs in transgenic lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa L.) overexpressing the Asparagine synthetase A gene from Escherichia coli

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 10827-10831

  Sobolev, Anatoli P ^a   Segre, Anna L ^a   Giannino, Donato ^a   Mariotti, Domenico ^a   Nicolodi, Chiara ^a   Brosio, Elvino ^b   Amato, Maria E ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foliar inulin; Lettuce; Metabolite profiling; NMR; Short chain oligofructans; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMMONIA LIGASE; INULIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; LETTUCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT LEAF; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ASPARTATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INULIN; LETTUCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

EID: 38049025702     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf072437x     Document Type: Article

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