Engineering central metabolism in crop species: Learning the system

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-200

  Carrari, Fernando ^a   Urbanczyk Wochniak, Ewa ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Metabolite profiling; Sucrose starch transition; Systems biology; Transcript profiling; Tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle

Indexed keywords

SOLANACEAE;

EID: 0141573240     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-7176(03)00028-4     Document Type: Article

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