Vegetative storage protein in Litchi chinensis, a subtropical evergreen fruit tree, possesses trypsin inhibitor activity

Annals of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1199-1208

  Tian, Wei Min ^a   Peng, Shi Qing ^a   Wang, Xu Chu ^a   Shi, Min Jing ^a   Chen, Yue Yi ^a   Hu, Zheng Hai ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Defence; Evergreen tree; Kunitz trypsin inhibitor; Litchi chinensis; Nitrogen storage; Vegetative storage protein

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; EVERGREEN TREE; INHIBITOR; PROTEIN; SHOOT GROWTH; STORAGE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; LYCHEE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; LITCHI; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS;

LITCHI CHINENSIS;

EID: 35348945396     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm216     Document Type: Article

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