Analysis of Starch Metabolism in Chloroplasts

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 775, Issue , 2011, Pages 387-410

  Hostettler, Carmen ^a   Kölling, Katharina ^a   Santelia, Diana ^a   Streb, Sebastian ^a   Kötting, Oliver ^a   Zeeman, Samuel C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amylopectin; Amylose; Arabidopsis; Partitioning; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; AMYLOSE; IODINE; PHOSPHATE; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; STAINING;

AMYLOPECTIN; AMYLOSE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; CHLOROPLASTS; IODINE; PHOSPHATES; PLANT LEAVES; STAINING AND LABELING; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 80054727901     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-237-3_21     Document Type: Chapter

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