Digestive stability and acute toxicity studies of exogenous protein in transgenic rice expressing lysine-rich fusion proteins

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 2460-2468

  Zhao, XiangXiang ^a   Hu, XiaoLan ^a   Tang, Tang ^a   Lu, ChangLi ^a   Liu, FuXia ^a   Ji, LiLian ^a   Liu, QiaoQuan ^b  

^a HUAIYIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

acute toxicity; digestive stability; exogenous protein; lysine rich; transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880601947     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5923-y     Document Type: Article

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