Carotenoid diversity: A modular role for the phytoene desaturase step

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 445-449

  Garcia Asua, Guillermo ^a   Lang, Helen P ^a   Cogdell, Richard J ^b   Hunter, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERWINIA HERBICOLA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0031793658     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(98)01329-6     Document Type: Article

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