Did you know that maize is deficient in Lysine and Tryptophan while soybean is lacking Methionine? Due to a feedback inhibition mechanism, the synthesis of these amino acids is tightly controlled so that it produces only enough for the plants' use, not at the levels we need them to be. Back in 2001 when I was working on my PhD thesis in South Korea, I worked on the enzyme called Acetolactate synth...
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