A fluorometric assay for trehalose in the picomole range

Plant Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Carillo, Petronia ^a   Feil, Regina ^b   Gibon, Yves ^b,c   Satoh Nagasawa, Namiko ^d,e   Jackson, David ^d   Bläsing, Oliver E ^b,f   Stitt, Mark ^b   Lunn, John Edward ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^e Faculty of Bioresource Sciences   (Japan)

^f Metanomics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Ramosa3; Trehalase; Trehalose; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84879072334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-9-21     Document Type: Article

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