Fructan biosynthesis and degradation as part of plant metabolism controlling sugar fluxes during durum wheat kernel maturation

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Cimini, Sara ^a   Locato, Vittoria ^a   Vergauwen, Rudy ^b   Paradiso, Annalisa ^c   Cecchini, Cristina ^d   Vandenpoel, Liesbeth ^a,b   Verspreet, Joran ^e   Courtin, Christophe M ^e   D'Egidio, Maria Grazia ^d   Van den Ende, Wim ^b   De Gara, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b LEUVEN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTRE LFORCE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bio active molecule; Durum wheat; Fructan exohydrolase; Fructosyltransferase; Kernel development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923226212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00089     Document Type: Article

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