Manipulating gene expression for the metabolic engineering of plants

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-79

  Lessard, Philip A ^a   Kulaveerasingam, Harikrishna ^a,b   York, Gregory M ^a   Strong, Amie ^a   Sinskey, Anthony J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

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EID: 0036332025     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mben.2001.0210     Document Type: Article

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