Purification and immunological identification of metallothioneins 1 and 2 from Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1293-1301

  Murphy, Angus ^a   Zhou, Jianmin ^b   Goldsbrough, Peter B ^b   Taiz, Lincoln ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0031127337     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.4.1293     Document Type: Article

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