Functional homologs of fungal metallothionein genes from arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 875-884

  Zhou, Jianmin ^a   Goldsbrough, Peter B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0028446575     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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