Phytases: Attributes, catalytic mechanisms and applications

Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 97-110

  Mullaney, Edward J ^a   Ullah, Abul H J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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