Blue luminescence of ripening bananas.
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SUBMITTER: Moser S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2912500 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Blue luminescence of ripening bananas.
Moser Simone S Müller Thomas T Ebert Marc-Olivier MO Jockusch Steffen S Turro Nicholas J NJ Kräutler Bernhard B
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20080101 46
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