Sugar signaling of fructan metabolism: New insights on protein phosphatases in sucrose-fed wheat leaves

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-313

  Martinez Noël, Giselle A ^a   Tognetti, Jorge A ^b   Salerno, Graciela L ^a   Pontis, Horacio G ^a  

^a CEBB MdP Fundación para Investigaciones Biológicas Aplicadas   (Spain)

^b Balcarce Argentina and Comision de Investigaciones Cientificas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fructan; Protein phosphatases 2A; Sucrose:fructan 6 fructosyltransferase; Sugar sensing; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77954959289     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.3.10924     Document Type: Article

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