Plants are sessile and sensitive organisms known to possess various regulatory
mechanisms for defending themselves under stress environments. Fructans are fructose …

The recent cloning of genes encoding fructosyltransferases and fructan exohydrolases has
been a major breakthrough in fructan research. Now, fructan metabolism and …

A unique plant on many levels, the distinctive properties of the Jerusalem artichoke, or
Helianthus tuberosus L., present novel answers to some of today's most pressing problems …

Background Quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-
PCR) is a sensitive technique for quantifying gene expression levels. One or more …

The isolation of intact, high-molecular-mass genomic DNA is essential for many molecular
biology applications including long PCR, endonuclease restriction digestion, Southern blot …

Fructans are fructose‐based oligo‐and polymers that serve as reserve carbohydrates in
many plant species. The original Edelman and Jefford model for GFn inulin type fructan …

Invertases catalyze the irreversible hydrolysis of sucrose to glucose and fructose. Plants
contain two unrelated families of these enzymes: acid forms that derive from periplasmic …

Exo-inulinases hydrolyze terminal, non-reducing 2, 1-linked and 2, 6-linked β-d-
fructofuranose residues in inulin, levan and sucrose releasing β-d-fructose. We present the …

In northern regions, annual and perennial overwintering plants such as wheat and
temperate grasses accumulate fructan in vegetative tissues as an energy source. This is …

Fructans are fructose oligomers and polymers synthesized by a small number of plant and
bacterial species and mainly function as reserve carbohydrates. The terminal fructosyl …