SUBUNIT POLYPEPTIDE COMPOSITION OF RUBISCO AS A TAXONOMIC TOOL IN SEPARATING CRITICAL LEPIDIUM SPECIES

Authors
MUMMENHOFF K
Citation
K. Mummenhoff, SUBUNIT POLYPEPTIDE COMPOSITION OF RUBISCO AS A TAXONOMIC TOOL IN SEPARATING CRITICAL LEPIDIUM SPECIES, Phytochemistry, 35(3), 1994, pp. 683-684
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Phytochemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319422
Volume
35
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
683 - 684
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9422(1994)35:3<683:SPCORA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Polypeptide composition of the large and small subunits of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from Lepidium africanum, L. bonar iense, L. densiflorum, L. hyssopifolium, L. ruderale and L. virginicum have been studied by isoelectric focusing analysis. Each species is c haracterized by an individual polypeptide pattern. Subunit composition of this enzyme appears to be a convenient taxonomic tool for separati ng Lepidium species, repeatedly confused in the literature due to cons iderable intraspecific variation.