Molecular genetic analysis of glucan branching enzymes from plants and bacteria in Arabidopsis reveals marked differences in their functions and capacity to mediate starch granule formation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1638-1655

  Lu, Kuan Jen ^a   Streb, Sebastian ^a   Meier, Florence ^a   Pfister, Barbara ^a   Zeeman, Samuel C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCAN; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; POTATO; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCANS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARCH; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84946221538     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00792     Document Type: Article

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