Towards generating caffeine-free tea by metabolic engineering

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 185-191

  Yadav, Sudesh Kumar ^a   Ahuja, Paramvir Singh ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Antisense; Caffeine; Metabolic engineering; RNA interference; Tea

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HEALTH FOOD; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEA; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CAFFEINE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; GENE SILENCING; HEALTH FOOD; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEA;

EID: 35448971512     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-007-0060-x     Document Type: Article

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