Identification, characterization, and purification of a tobacco endonuclease activity induced upon hypersensitive response cell death

Plant Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 1951-1962

  Mittler, Ron ^a   Lam, Eric ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 0029411193     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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