Multifunctional fructans and raffinose family oligosaccharides

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Van den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Fructan; Immunity; Oligosaccharide; Raffinose; Signaling; Stress; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899896145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00247     Document Type: Review

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