Magnesium-Chelatase from Developing Pea Leaves: Characterization of a Soluble Extract from Chloroplasts and Resolution into Three Required Protein Fractions

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 605-615

  Guo, Ribo ^a,b   Luo, Meizhong ^a   Weinstein, Jon D ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM;

EID: 0000007102     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.2.605     Document Type: Article

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