Metabolic engineering of the alkaloid biosynthesis in plants: Functional genomics approaches

Applications of Plant Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 9781402060311, Issue , 2007, Pages 109-127

  Oksman Caldentey, Kirsi Marja ^a   Häkkinen, Suvi T ^a   Rischer, Heiko ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Nicotine alkaloids; Pathway engineering; Terpenoid indole alkaloids; Tropane alkaloids

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; GENES; LIPIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; NICOTINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ALKALOID BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; PATHWAY ENGINEERINGS; PLANT SECONDARY METABOLITES; TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS; TERPENOID INDOLE ALKALOIDS; TROPANE ALKALOIDS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 73849116660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6031-1_4     Document Type: Chapter

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