Genetic engineering of plant lipids

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue , 1999, Pages 197-216

  Broun, Pierre ^a   Gettner, Sharmeen ^b   Somerville, Chris ^c  

^a Mendel Biotechnology   (United States)

^b California Medical Review Inc   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Oil; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

EDIBLE OIL; LIPID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIPIDS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANTS, EDIBLE;

EID: 0032798605     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.19.1.197     Document Type: Review

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