Autohydrolysis of plant xylans by apoplastic expression of thermophilic bacterial endo-xylanases

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 363-374

  Borkhardt, Bernhard ^a   Harholt, Jesper ^b   Ulvskov, Peter ^b   Ahring, Birgitte K ^c   Jørgensen, Bodil ^a   Brinch Pedersen, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Apoplast; Arabidopsis; Dictyoglomus; Glucuronoxylan; Stem; Xylanases

Indexed keywords

ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; XYLAN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GOLGI COMPLEX; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PLANT STEM; TEMPERATURE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA; CELL WALL; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GOLGI APPARATUS; HYDROLYSIS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TEMPERATURE; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; XYLANS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOGLOMUS; DICTYOGLOMUS THERMOPHILUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77950985578     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2010.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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