Evidence that a 77-kilodalton protein from the starch of pea embryos is an isoform of starch synthase that is both soluble and granule bound

Plant Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-97

  Edwards, Anne ^a   Marshall, Jacqueline ^a   Denyer, Kay ^a   Sidebottom, Christopher ^b   Visser, Richard G F ^c   Martin, Cathie ^a   Smith, Alison M ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0030250878     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.1.89     Document Type: Article

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