Profiling of nondigestible carbohydrate products in a complete set of alien monosomic addition lines explains genetic controls of its metabolisms in Allium cepa

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 521-528

  Yaguchi, Shigenori ^a   Nakajima, Tetsuya ^a   Sumi, Toshihisa ^b   Yamauchi, Naoki ^a   Shigyo, Masayoshi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allium fistulosum; Pectin methylesterase; Polygalactronase; Shallot

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM ASCALONICUM; ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM FISTULOSUM;

EID: 70450177135     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.134.5.521     Document Type: Article

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