Potential of the common ice plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum as a new high-functional food as evaluated by polyol accumulation

Plant Production Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-46

  Agarie, Sakae ^a   Kawaguchi, Akiko ^a,b   Kodera, Akiko ^a   Sunagawa, Haruki ^a   Kojima, Hide ^a   Nose, Akihiro ^a   Nakahara, Teruhisa ^c  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Asikita Regional Promotion Bureau   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common ice plant; Myo inositol; Pinitol; Salt stress

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CRYSTALLINUM;

EID: 61649094014     PISSN: 1343943X     EISSN: 13491008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1626/pps.12.37     Document Type: Review

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