Comparative study of transgenic Brachypodium distachyon expressing sucrose:Fructan 6-fructosyltransferases from wheat and timothy grass with different enzymatic properties

Planta

Volumn 239, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 783-792

  Tamura, Ken ichi ^a   Sanada, Yasuharu ^a   Tase, Kazuhiro ^a   Kawakami, Akira ^b   Yoshida, Midori ^a   Yamada, Toshihiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachypodium; Degree of polymerization; Freezing tolerance; Fructan; Fructosyltransferase; Timothy; Wheat

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; PHLEUM PRATENSE; POACEAE; POOIDEAE; TRITICEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INULOSUCRASE; SUCROSE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRACHYPODIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHLEUM PRATENSE; PLANT LEAF; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; CARBOHYDRATES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FREEZING; FRUCTANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PHLEUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SUCROSE; TRITICUM;

EID: 84896395368     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-013-2016-8     Document Type: Article

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