Potato starch synthases: Functions and relationships

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Farhad Nazarian-Firouzabadi1, Richard G F Visser2

  • 1Agronomy and Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, P.O.Box 465, Khorramabad, Iran.

Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
|November 9, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
BioinformaticsGlycosyltransferasePotatoStarch biosynthesisStarch synthases

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