Ryegrass leaf fructan synthesis is oxygen dependent and abolished by endomembrane inhibitors

New Phytologist

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 832-840

  Cairns, Andrew J ^a   Turner, Lesley B ^a   Gallagher, Joseph A ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Golgi; Lolium temulentum; Monensin; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; FRUCTAN; OKADAIC ACID; OXYGEN; SUCROSE; VINCRISTINE;

CELL ORGANELLE; ENZYME; GRASS; INHIBITION; LEAF; MEMBRANE; METABOLISM;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VACUOLE; DARKNESS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; LOLIUM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

DARKNESS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FRUCTANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LOLIUM; OKADAIC ACID; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SUCROSE; VACUOLES; VINCRISTINE;

LOLIUM; LOLIUM TEMULENTUM;

EID: 55649100363     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02616.x     Document Type: Article

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