Metabolomics for metabolically manipulated plants: Effects of tryptophan overproduction

Metabolomics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-334

  Ishihara, Atsushi ^a,b   Matsuda, Fumio ^a,b,d   Miyagawa, Hisashi ^a,b   Wakasa, Kyo ^c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthranilate synthase; Metabolomics; OSA1AD; Rice; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748817566     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-007-0072-4     Document Type: Article

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