Prospects for the metabolic engineering of bio active flavonoids and related phenylpropanoid compounds

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 439, Issue , 1998, Pages 55-66

  Dixon, Richard A ^a   Howles, Paul A ^a,b   Lamb, Chris ^b   He, Xian Zhi ^a   Thirupathi Reddy, J ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; PHENYLPROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SYMBIOSIS;

FLAVONOIDS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLYCOSIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 0031660456     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5335-9_5     Document Type: Article

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