Two oxidosqualene cyclases responsible for biosynthesis of tomato fruit cuticular triterpenoids

Plant Physiology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 540-552

  Wang, Zhonghua ^a   Guhling, Ortwin ^a   Yao, Ruonan ^a   Li, Fengling ^a   Yeats, Trevor H ^b   Rose, Jocelyn K C ^b   Jetter, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

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EID: 78650984754     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.162883     Document Type: Article

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