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Scanning electron microscopy of soybean protein bodies
Author(s) -
Wolf W. J.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02612949
Subject(s) - scanning electron microscope , amorphous solid , electron microscope , chemistry , materials science , crystallography , composite material , optics , physics
Protein bodies prepared from defatted soybean flour contained numerous spherical particles 1–3 µ in diameter, plus amorphous material, when examined in a scanning electron microscope. Full‐fat and defatted soybean flours contained particles 1–10 µ in diameter. The larger protein bodies apparently disrupted during isolation. The scanning technique is a simple and rapid method for observing the effects of various treatments on subcellular seed particles of this size.