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Effect of various temperatures on phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis in thylakoid membranes

Yi-Nong Xu1, Ze-Neng Wang, Gui-Zhen Jiang

  • 1Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China.

Physiologia Plantarum
|April 19, 2003
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