Our work with cyanogenic plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-19

  Conn, Eric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Compartmentation; Cyanogenesis; Localization

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE; CYANOGEN CHLORIDE;

ART; BIOLOGY; HISTORY; METABOLISM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGY; CYANIDES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

LINUM USITATISSIMUM;

EID: 44949177492     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092924     Document Type: Review

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