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This is the user page of Wim Van den Ende. I am a permanent researcher at the Lab of Molecular Plant Physiology, KULeuven, Belgium.

I am an agronomical engineer and a plant physiologist mainly focusing on fructan, sucrose and RFO metabolisms. Recently I became fascinated in the working mechanisms and different substrate specificities within glycoside hydrolase families GH32, GH68, GH27 and GH36.

My other research topics include:

• Regulatory role of defect invertases in plants
• Isolation of sucrose sensors
• Stress tolerance mechanisms in plants
• Rational enzym design and sugar docking
• Sugars as antioxidants
• Sugar signalling and source-sink relationships
• Connections between sugars, ascorbate and ROS in mitochondria
• Prebiotic compounds and functional food
• Mechanisms in plant development