Analyses of Arabidopsis ecotypes reveal metabolic diversity to convert D-amino acids

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Gördes, Dirk ^a,c   Koch, Grit ^a   Thurow, Kerstin ^a   Kolukisaoglu, Üner ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c WESSLING GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Chiral separation; D amino acids in soil and plants; High performance liquid chromatography; L and D amino acids; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887282630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-559     Document Type: Article

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