Transforming a fructan:fructan 6G-fructosyltransferase from perennial ryegrass into a sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase

Plant Physiology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 327-339

  Lasseur, Bertrand ^a,e   Schroeven, Lindsey ^b   Lammens, Willem ^b   Le Roy, Katrien ^b   Spangenberg, German ^c   Manduzio, Hélène ^d   Vergauwen, Rudy ^b   Lothier, Jérémy ^a,f   Prud'homme, Marie Pascale ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f RD 10   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE;

EID: 58449083624     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.125559     Document Type: Article

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