Sucrose and invertases, a part of the plant defense response to the biotic stresses

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Tauzin, Alexandra S ^a,b   Giardina, Thierry ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alkaline neutral invertase; Cell wall invertase; Plant defense response; Sucrose; Vacuolar invertase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979587963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00293     Document Type: Review

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