Pathways for the Synthesis of Polyesters in Plants: Cutin, Suberin, and Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2008, Pages 201-239

  Nawrath, Christiane ^a   Poirier, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

oxidation; Arabidopsis; cuticle; cutin; fatty acid; metabolic engineering; peroxisome; PHA; PHB; plastid; polyester; polyhydroxyalkanoates; polyhydroxybutyrate; suberin

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 65249143456     PISSN: 17550408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1755-0408(07)01008-9     Document Type: Review

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