“…indicate that the native enzyme is a homo-dimer with a molecular weight of 72,000 for the subunit. This molecular weight of the homo-dimer was larger than that of other acid phosphatases purified from seeds of triticale (45,700 for monomer, Ching et al 1987), cell cultures of tomato (51,000 for dimer, Paul and Williamson 1987), barley roots (79,000 and 77,600 for dimer, Panara et al 1990), soybean axes and cotyledons (i00,000 for dimer, Kaneko et al 1990), seeds of sunflower (103,000 for dimer, Park and Etten 1986), tuberous root of sweet potato (110,000 and 105,000 for dimer, Uehara et al 1974), and cell culture of soybean (130,000 for dimer, LeBansky et al 1992), but smaller than that from cotton seedlings (200,000 for tetramer, Bhargava and Sachar 1987), and peanut seeds (240,000 for hexomer, Basha et al 1984). The isoelectric points (pI) of crude acid phosphatases from secretion, roots and leaves were determined by I E F (Fig.…”