Preparation of tetrapyrrole-amino acid covalent complexes

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 393-398

  Fiedor, Leszek ^a   Rosenbach Belkin, Varda ^a   Sai, Maruthi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Charge transfer complex; Chlorophyll; Chlorophyllase; Chlorophyllides; Interaction with amino acids; Model compounds synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001032897     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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