Els J.M. Van Damme

The Abundant Class III Chitinase Homolog in Young Developing Banana Fruits Behaves as a Transient Vegetative Storage Protein and Most Probably Serves as an Important Supply of Amino Acids for the Synthesis of Ripening-Associated Proteins1

Paul Proost, P. Proost, R. Swennen, 2002, Plant Physiology.