The plant wound hormone systemin binds with the N-terminal part to its receptor but needs the C-terminal part to activate it

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1561-1570

  Meindl, Thomas ^a   Boller, Thomas ^a   Felix, Georg ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

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LYCOPERSICON PERUVIANUM;

EID: 0032170392     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.9.1561     Document Type: Article

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