Enhanced nutraceutical potential of gamma irradiated black soybean extracts

Veda Krishnan1, Santosh Gothwal2, Anil Dahuja1

  • 1Division of Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India.

Food Chemistry
|December 31, 2017
PubMed

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