Asparaginyl endopeptidase during maturation and germination of durum wheat

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 475-480

  Bottari, Andrea ^a   Capocchi, Antonella ^a   Galleschi, Luciano ^a   Jopova, Andrea ^a   Saviozzi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asn endopeptidase; germination; maturation; Triticum durum; wheat seeds

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 0030497994     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.970309.x     Document Type: Article

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