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Molybdoenzymes and molybdenum cofactor in plants.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Aug 2002
Mendel Ralf R, Hänsch Robert
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The transition element molybdenum (Mo) is essential for (nearly) all organisms and occurs in more than 40 enzymes catalysing diverse redox reactions, however, only four of them have been found in plants. (1) Nitrate reductase catalyses the key step in inorganic nitrogen assimilation, (2) aldehyde oxidase(s) have been shown to catalyse the last step in the biosynthesis of the phytohormone abscisic acid, (3)...
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