Removing allergens and reducing toxins from food crops

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-196

  Gallo, Maria ^a   Sayre, Richard ^b  

^a Genetics Institute   (United States)

^b DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD CROPS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HUMAN HEALTH; MULTIGENE FAMILIES; OVER-EXPRESSION; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SILENCING; TRANSGENIC;

ANTIGENS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALLERGEN; AMMONIA; CYANIDE; CYTOCHROME P450; GLYCOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ISOLEUCINE; LINAMARIN; LOTAUSTRALIN; PLANT TOXIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

APPLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CASSAVA; CONSUMER; CYANOGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUTRITION; PEANUT; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RICE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOYBEAN; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC CROP;

ALLERGENS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; GLYCINE MAX; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 66149184525     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2009.03.005     Document Type: Review

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