Maize root phytase: Purification, characterization, and localization of enzyme activity and its putative substrate

Plant Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1429-1436

  Hübel, Frank ^a,b   Beck, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030478075     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.4.1429     Document Type: Article

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