Metabolic Organization in Plants: A Challenge for the Metabolic Engineer

Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2008, Pages 1-27

  Kruger, Nicholas J ^a   Ratcliffe, George R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constraints based network analysis; Elementary mode analysis; Enzyme regulation; Kinetic modeling; Metabolic compensation; Metabolic control analysis; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic flux analysis; Photosynthetic carbon metabolism; Subcellular compartmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249095663     PISSN: 17550408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1755-0408(07)01001-6     Document Type: Review

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