Arabidopsis plants perform arithmetic division to prevent starvation at night

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Scialdone, Antonio ^a   Mugford, Sam T ^a   Feike, Doreen ^a   Skeffngton, Alastair ^a   Borrill, Philippa ^a   Graf, Alexander ^a,b   Smith, Alison M ^a   Howard, Martin ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA AMYLASE; ISOAMYLASE; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BRACHYPODIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; FLUOROMETRY; MUTANT; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARVATION; ARABIDOPSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STARCH;

EID: 84879919367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00669     Document Type: Article

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