The role of proteolysis in the processing and assembly of 11S seed globulins

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 343-357

  Jung, Rudolf ^a,b,c   Paul Scott, M ^a,d   Nam, Young Woo ^a,e   Beaman, Todd W ^a,f   Bassüner, Ronald ^a   Saalbach, Isolde ^b   Müntz, Klaus ^b   Nielsen, Niels C ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 3743136276     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.3.343     Document Type: Article

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