Proteome balancing of the maize seed for higher nutritional value

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Yongrui ^a   Messing, Joachim ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lysine; Nitrogen; RNAi; Storage proteins; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902252340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00240     Document Type: Article

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