Ubiquitous soybean urease, as opposed to the seed-specific urease, designates the seemingly identical ureolytic activities of suspension cultures and leaves. It also appears to be the basal urease in developing seeds of a variety, Itachi, which lacks the seed-specific urease (Polacco, Winkler 1984 Plant Physiol 74: 800-804). On native polyacrylamide gels the ureolytic activities in crude extrac...