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  1. Sucrose signaling pathways leading to fructan and anthocyanin accumulation: A dual function in abiotic and biotic stress responses?

    Article • Environmental and Experimental Botany, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  2. A wheat1-FEH w3variant underlies enzyme activity for stem WSC remobilization to grain under drought

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende, Jingjuan Zhang

  3. Cloning and characterization of a novel fructan 6-exohydrolase strongly inhibited by sucrose in Lolium perenne

    Article • Planta, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  4. Sugars take a central position in plant growth, development and, stress responses. A focus on apical dominance

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, June 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  5. Fructans: Prebiotics and immunomodulators

    Article • Journal of Functional Foods, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  6. Climate Extreme Effects on the Chemical Composition of Temperate Grassland Species under Ambient and Elevated CO2: A Comparison of Fructan and Non-Fructan Accumulators

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2014, PLOS

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  7. Landscape scale variation in nectar amino acid and sugar composition in a Lepidoptera pollinated orchid species and its relation with fruit set

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  8. Plant sugars are crucial players in the oxidative challenge during abiotic stress: extending the traditional concept

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  9. Vacuolar protein sorting mechanisms in plants

    Article • FEBS Journal, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  10. Multifunctional fructans and raffinose family oligosaccharides

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  11. Sugars, the clock and transition to flowering

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  12. Sugars as Antioxidants in Plants

    Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  13. pKa Modulation of the Acid/Base Catalyst within GH32 and GH68: A Role in Substrate/Inhibitor Specificity?

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2012, PLOS

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  14. Erratum to ‘Myo-inositol and beyond – Emerging networks under stress’ [Plant Sci. 181 (2011) 387–400]

    Article • Plant Science, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  15. A Simple and Accurate Method for Determining Wheat Grain Fructan Content and Average Degree of Polymerization

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  16. Crystal structure of 6‐SST/6‐SFT from Pachysandra terminalis, a plant fructan biosynthesizing enzyme in complex with its acceptor substrate 6‐kestose

    Article • The Plant Journal, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  17. Comparison of fructan dynamics in two wheat cultivars with different capacities of accumulation and remobilization under drought stress

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  18. Myo-inositol and beyond – Emerging networks under stress

    Article • Plant Science, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  19. Neutral invertase, hexokinase and mitochondrial ROS homeostasis

    Article • Plant Signaling & Behavior, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  20. UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases involved in the biosynthesis of steviol glycosides

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  21. The food additives inulin and stevioside counteract oxidative stress

    Article • International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  22. Metabolism of galactosyl-oligosaccharides in Stellaria media – Discovery of stellariose synthase, a novel type of galactosyltransferase

    Article • Phytochemistry, July 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  23. Sugar signalling and antioxidant network connections in plant cells

    Article • FEBS Journal, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  24. Post-translational processing of β-d-xylanases and changes in extractability of arabinoxylans during wheat germination

    Article • Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  25. Donor and acceptor substrate selectivity among plant glycoside hydrolase family 32 enzymes

    Article • FEBS Journal, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  26. Effect of ethylene glycol and glycerol fructosides on the activity and product specificity of bacterial and plant fructosyltransferases

    Article • Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  27. Transforming wheat vacuolar invertase into a high affinity sucrose:sucrose 1‐fructosyltransferase

    Article • New Phytologist, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  28. Isolation and Characterization of a Pentasaccharide from Stellaria media

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, October 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  29. Freezing tolerance by vesicle-mediated fructan transport

    Article • Trends in Plant Science, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  30. Purification, cloning and functional differences of a third fructan 1‐exohydrolase (1‐FEHw3) from wheat (Triticum aestivum)

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  31. Influencing the binding configuration of sucrose in the active sites of chicory fructan 1‐exohydrolase and sugar beet fructan 6‐exohydrolase

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  32. Crystal Structures of Arabidopsis thaliana Cell-Wall Invertase Mutants in Complex with Sucrose

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  33. An alternate sucrose binding mode in the E203Q Arabidopsis invertase mutant: An X‐ray crystallography and docking study

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  34. N‐glycosylation affects substrate specificity of chicory fructan 1‐exohydrolase: evidence for the presence of an inulin binding cleft

    Article • New Phytologist, July 2007, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  35. Insights into the fine architecture of the active site of chicory fructan 1‐exohydrolase: 1‐kestose as substrate vs sucrose as inhibitor

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  36. Fructan 1-exohydrolase is associated with flower opening in Campanula rapunculoides

    Article • Functional Plant Biology, January 2007, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  37. The rice genome encodes two vacuolar invertases with fructan exohydrolase activity but lacks the related fructan biosynthesis genes of the Pooideae

    Article • New Phytologist, November 2006, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  38. Complete NMR characterization of lychnose from Stellaria media (L.) Vill

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  39. Molecular cloning and characterization of a high DP fructan: fructan 1‐fructosyl transferase from Viguiera discolor (Asteraceae) and its heterologous expression in Pichia pastoris

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, November 2005, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  40. Molecular cloning and functional analysis of a novel 6&1-FEH from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) preferentially degrading small graminans like bifurcose

    Article • Gene, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  41. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of a cell-wall invertase fromArabidopsis thaliana

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, July 2005, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  42. Cloning, characterization and functional analysis of novel 6‐kestose exohydrolases (6‐KEHs) from wheat (Triticum aestivum)

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2005, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  43. X‐ray diffraction structure of a plant glycosyl hydrolase family 32 protein: fructan 1‐exohydrolase IIa ofCichorium intybus

    Article • The Plant Journal, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  44. Arabidopsis AtcwINV3 and 6 are not invertases but are fructan exohydrolases (FEHs) with different substrate specificities

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  45. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of fructan 1-exohydrolase IIa fromCichorium intybus

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, February 2004, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  46. Sweet Substitute: A software tool for in silico fragmentation of peptide‐linked N‐glycans

    Article • PROTEOMICS, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  47. Unexpected presence of fructan 6‐exohydrolases (6‐FEHs) in non‐fructan plants: characterization, cloning, mass mapping and functional analysis of a novel ‘cell‐wall invertase‐like’ specific 6‐FEH from sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

    Article • The Plant Journal, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  48. Cloning and heterologous expression of early genes in gibberellin and steviol biosynthesis via the methylerythritol phosphate pathway in Stevia rebaudiana

    Article • Canadian Journal of Botany, May 2003, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Wim Van den Ende, Prof dr Els J.M. Van Damme

  49. Extraction of high-quality genomic DNA from latex-containing plants

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  50. Cloning of a vacuolar invertase from Belgian endive leaves (Cichorium intybus)

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, July 2002, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  51. Fructan Biosynthetic and Breakdown Enzymes in Dicots Evolved From Different Invertases. Expression of Fructan Genes Throughout Chicory Development

    Article • The Scientific World JOURNAL, January 2002, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  52. ISOLATION AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF NEW FRUCTANS PRODUCED BY CHICORY

    Article • Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry, June 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  53. Sucrose assimilation during early developmental stages of chicory ( Cichorium intybus L.) plants

    Article • Planta, February 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  54. Cloning and functional analysis of chicory root fructan1‐exohydrolase I (1‐FEH I): a vacuolar enzyme derivedfrom a cell‐wall invertase ancestor? Mass fingerprint of the 1‐FEH I enzyme

    Article • The Plant Journal, November 2000, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  55. Fructan accumulation induced by nitrogen deficiency in barley leaves correlates with the level of sucrose:fructan 6-fructosyltransferase mRNA

    Article • Planta, October 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  56. Drought induces fructan synthesis and 1-SST (sucrose: sucrose fructosyltransferase) in roots and leaves of chicory seedlings ( Cichorium intybus L.)

    Article • Planta, April 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  57. Effect of defoliation on fructan pattern and fructan metabolizing enzymes in young chicory plants (Cichorium intybus)

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, June 1999, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  58. Purification and properties of a second fructan exohydrolase from the roots of Cichorium intybus

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, May 1999, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  59. Effect of nitrogen concentration on fructan and fructan metabolizing enzymes in young chicory plants (Cichorium intybus)

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, January 1999, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  60. Effect of osmolytes on the fructan pattern in feeder roots produced during forcing of chicory (Cichorium intybus L.)

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  61. Purification and characterization of 1-SST, the key enzyme initiating fructan biosynthesis in young chicory roots (Cichorium intybus)

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, November 1996, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  62. De-novo synthesis of fructans from sucrose in vitro by a combination of two purified enzymes (sucrose: sucrose 1-fructosyl transferase and fructan: fructan 1-fructosyl transferase) from chicory roots (Cichorium intybus L.)

    Article • Planta, November 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  63. Purification and characterization of fructan: fructan fructosyl transferase from chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) roots

    Article • Planta, August 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  64. In vitro synthesis of fractofuranosyl‐only oligosaccharides from inulin and fructose by purified chicory root fructan:fructan fructosyl transferase

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, August 1996, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  65. Fructan synthesizing and degrading activities in chicory roots (Cichorium intybus L.) during field-growth, storage and forcing

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, January 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  66. Variation in the in vitro generated fructan pattern from sucrose as a function of the purified chicory root 1-SST and 1-FFT concentrations

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, January 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wim Van den Ende

  67. Purification and properties of a neutral invertase from the roots of Cichorium intybus

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, February 1995, Wiley

    Professor Wim Van den Ende