Integrating genomics and metabolomics for engineering plant metabolic pathways

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 174-179

  Oksman Caldentey, Kirsi Marja ^a   Saito, Kazuki ^b,c,d  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENOMICS TOOLS; PLANT METABOLITES;

METABOLITES;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSGENE;

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; METABOLISM; PLANTS;

EID: 17044391118     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.02.007     Document Type: Review

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