Metabolic engineering of plant volatiles

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-189

  Dudareva, Natalia ^a   Pichersky, Eran ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AROMA QUALITY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT DEFENSES;

METABOLISM;

VOLATILE AGENT;

AROMA; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLOWER; FRUIT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; ODOR; PLANT DEFENSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 42249097421     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.02.011     Document Type: Review

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