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A modification of the cutting device of a kitchen homogenizer is described which allows the preparation of biochemically active greening barley plastids. The new cutting device consists of four easily replaceable razor blades. Intact plastids are isolated from the immature leaves of spinach or from greening barley leaves with a yield of 10% and from etiolated barley with a yield of 6%.
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Kannangara, C.G., Gough, S.P., Hansen, B. et al. A homogenizer with replaceable razor blades for bulk isolation of active barley plastids. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 42, 431–439 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906279
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906279