Nicotine Biosynthesis

Plant Metabolism and Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 191-216

  Shoji, Tsubasa ^a   Hashimoto, Takashi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argine decarboxylase (ADC); Compartmentation and Trafficking; Expression sequence tags (ESTs); Gene Regulation; N methylputrescine oxidase (MPO); Nicotine Biosynthesis; Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC); Recent Developments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953719834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119991311.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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