Changes in alpha-and-beta-amylase activities during seed germinaition of African finger millet

International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 481-488

  Gimbi, Dorothy Machunda ^a   Kitabake, Naofumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BETA AMYLASE; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; ISOENZYME; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STABILITY; FLOUR; FOOD ANALYSIS; GERMINATION; INCUBATION TIME; MALT; MILLET; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; REVIEW; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STAINING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AFRICA; ALPHA-AMYLASE; BETA-AMYLASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ELEUSINE; GERMINATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOENZYMES; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ELEUSINE; ELEUSINE CORACANA; ELEUSINE CORACANA AFRICANA;

EID: 0036874051     PISSN: 09637486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09637480220164361     Document Type: Review

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