title: Legumin-like and Vicilin-like Storage Proteins in Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) and six other Dicotyledonous Species.
abstract: A legumin-like protein and a vicilin-like protein are the essential storage proteins in dicotyledonous plants. Similar, but not identical physicochemical characteristics, as well as serological cross-reactivity, demonstrate the homology of each of these proteins in seeds of different plant taxa. Instead of the native 50,000 type subunit of the vicilin-like proteins and the 40,000 and 20,000 type subunits of the legumin-like proteins, smaller polypeptides have been observed in consequence of temperature, storing conditions or purification procedures. Even proteins from freshly harvested seeds appear to have been partly altered by environmental conditions.
authors.affiliation: Universität Bayreuth, Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenökologie und Systematik, Postfach 3008, D-8580 Bayreuth, F.R.G.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Jensen