Fructan and its relationship to abiotic stress tolerance in plants

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2007-2023

  Livingston III, David P ^a   Hincha, Dirk K ^b   Heyer, Arnd G ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold acclimation; Inulin; Levan; Lipid phase transitions; Liposomes; Membrane stabilization; Model systems; Plant transformation; Subzero acclimation; Sugar glasses

Indexed keywords

FRUCTAN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; FREEZING TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DROUGHTS; FREEZING; FRUCTANS; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 67649909024     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-009-0002-x     Document Type: Review

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