Transgenic Arabidopsis plants can accumulate polyhydroxybutyrate to up to 4% of their fresh weight

Planta

Volumn 211, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 841-845

  Bohmert, Karen ^a   Balbo, Ilse ^a   Kopka, Joachim ^a   Mittendorf, Volker ^a   Nawrath, Christiane ^b   Poirier, Yves ^c   Tischendorf, Gilbert ^d   Trethewey, Richard N ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis (PHB production); Metabolite profiling (quadrupole mass spectrometry); Polyhydroxyalkanoate; Polyhydroxybutyrate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOACCUMULATION; CHLOROPLAST; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC LINE; METABOLITE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; POLYHYDROXYBUTYRATE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0033693841     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250000350     Document Type: Review

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