Recent advance in the study of caspase-like proteases and Bax inhibitor-1 in plants: Their possible roles as regulator of programmed cell death

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-70

  Watanabe, Naohide ^a   Lam, Eric ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0842280592     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2004.00206.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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