Genetic evidence that chain length and branch point distributions are linked determinants of starch granule formation in arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1457-1474

  Pfister, Barbara ^a,b   Lu, Kuan Jen ^a,b   Eicke, Simona ^a,b   Feil, Regina ^a,b   Lunn, John E ^a,b   Streb, Sebastian ^a,b   Zeeman, Samuel C ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

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EID: 84905284813     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.241455     Document Type: Article

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