Influence of Precursor Availability on Alkaloid Accumulation by Transgenic Cell Line of Catharanthus roseus

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 853-857

  Whitmer, Serap ^a   Canel, Camilo ^a,b   Hallard, Didier ^a   Gonçalves, Cecilia ^a   Verpoorte, Robert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS;

EID: 0000326239     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.2.853     Document Type: Article

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