Plastid pathways: Metabolic engineering via the chloroplast genome

Applications of Plant Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 9781402060311, Issue , 2007, Pages 79-108

  Ruhlman, Tracey ^a   Daniell, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Genetic transformation; Nutritional enhancement; Operon; Oral delivery; Protein expression; UTR

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CROPS; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; OPERON; ORAL DELIVERY; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 73449109818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6031-1_3     Document Type: Chapter

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