Plant aspartic proteinases: Enzymes on the way to a function

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 569-576

  Mutlu, Asuman ^a,b   Susannah, Gal ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PLANT PRODUCT; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEED PRODUCTION;

EID: 0345120944     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.105324.x     Document Type: Article

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