Betalain production in plant in vitro systems

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 581-593

  Georgiev, Vasil ^a   Ilieva, Mladenka ^a   Bley, Thomas ^b   Pavlov, Atanas ^a  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betalains; Biological activity; Bioreactors; Plant in vitro systems; Process optimization

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; CACTACEAE; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA; PYRUS;

EID: 50249134290     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-008-0170-6     Document Type: Review

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