Engineering starch for increased quantity and quality

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 291-298

  Slattery, Casey J ^a   Kavakli, I Halil ^a   Okita, Thomas W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; STARCH; TRANSGENE;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; STARCH;

EID: 0034235937     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(00)01657-5     Document Type: Review

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