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Histochemical and biochemical evidence for the presence of microbodies in Phytophthora palmivora

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Using the diaminobenzidine (DAB) reaction catalase activity could be demonstrated histochemically in cytoplasmic structures of Phytophthora palmivora bearing general ultrastructural features of microbodies. These socalled U-bodies sediment together with the catalase activity in Ficoll-Sorbitol-Sucrose gradients following prior purification by differential centrifugation.

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  1. Cytological Laboratory, Institute of General Botany, University of Zürich, Zürich

    M. L. Philippi, R. W. Parish & H. R. Hohl

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Philippi, M.L., Parish, R.W. & Hohl, H.R. Histochemical and biochemical evidence for the presence of microbodies in Phytophthora palmivora . Arch. Microbiol. 103, 127–132 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436339

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