California Agriculture (Oct 1973)

Protein electrophoresis AIDS cereal variety identification

  • J Menke,
  • R Singh,
  • C Qualset,
  • S Jain

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 10

Abstract

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Enzyme proteins obtained from seedling plants show distinct patterns (isozymes) after migration in an electric field. Crop varieties differ in isozymes, and these differences open new possibilities for “fingerprinting” varieties for identification purposes.