Chapter Five Biochemical, molecular, genetic and evolutionary aspects of defense-related terpenoid metabolism in conifers

Recent Advances in Phytochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue C, 2000, Pages 109-150

  Bohlmann, Jörg ^a   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a   Aubourg, Sébastien ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0079-9920(00)80006-4     Document Type: Chapter

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