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. 1995 Jul;7(7):887–898. doi: 10.1105/tpc.7.7.887

Use of Arabidopsis mutants and genes to study amide amino acid biosynthesis.

H M Lam 1, K Coschigano 1, C Schultz 1, R Melo-Oliveira 1, G Tjaden 1, I Oliveira 1, N Ngai 1, M H Hsieh 1, G Coruzzi 1
PMCID: PMC160882  PMID: 7640525

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