Towards a better understanding of the generation of fructan structure diversity in plants: Molecular and functional characterization of a sucrose:fructan 6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT) cDNA from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1871-1885

  Lasseur, Bertrand ^a,d   Lothier, Jérémy ^a,e   Wiemken, Andres ^b   Van Laere, André ^c   Morvan Bertrand, Annette ^a   Ende, Wim Van Den ^c   Prud'Homme, Marie Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Bifurcose; fructan; gene expression; heterologous expression; Hordeum vulgare; levan neoseries; Lolium perenne; Pichia pastoris; sucrose:fructan 6 fructosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM VULGARE; LOLIUM PERENNE; PICHIA PASTORIS; POA SECUNDA;

EID: 79952834209     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq388     Document Type: Article

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