Genes and enzymes of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 557-583

  Cunningham Jr , F X ^a   Gantt, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotene; Chloroplast; Isoprenoid; Metabolism; Xanthophyll

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031767171     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.49.1.557     Document Type: Article

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