Pullulanase in mung bean cotyledons. Purification, some properties and developmental pattern during and following germination

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 519-525

  Morinaga, Kozaburo ^a   Honda, Eiichi ^a   Morohashi, Yukio ^b   Matsushima, Hisashi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mung bean; Pullulanase; Seed germination; Starch debranching enzyme; Vigna radiata

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031472672     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1010310.x     Document Type: Article

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