Arginase is inoperative in developing soybean embryos

Plant Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 297-303

  Goldraij, Ariel ^a   Polacco, Joe C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; ARGININE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MUTANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UREA;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0032865184     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.119.1.297     Document Type: Article

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