Chapter seven Multiple levels of control in the regulation of alkaloid biosynthesis

Recent Advances in Phytochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue C, 2003, Pages 143-180

  Facchini, Peter J ^a   Bird, David A ^a   MacLeod, Benjamin P ^a   Park, Sang Un ^a   Samanani, Nailish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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