Phytate-degrading enzymes: Regulation of synthesis in microorganisms and plants

Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 78-96

  Greiner, Ralf ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

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