Improving peppermint essential oil yield and composition by metabolic engineering

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 16944-16949

  Lange, Bernd Markus ^a   Mahmoud, Soheil Seyed ^a,d   Wildung, Mark R ^a   Turner, Glenn W ^a   Davis, Edward M ^a   Lange, Iris ^a   Baker, Raymond C ^b   Boydston, Rick A ^c   Croteau, Rodney B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

1 deoxy D xylulose 5 phosphate reductoisomerase; 2C methylerythritol 4 phosphate pathway; Monoterpene; Terpenoid

Indexed keywords

1 DEOXY DEXTRO XYLULOSE 5 PHOSPHATE REDUCTOISOMERASE; LIMONENE; MENTHOFURAN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEPPERMINT OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXTRACTION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MENTHA; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT OIL PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYCLOHEXENES; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, PLANT; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; MENTHA PIPERITA; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT OILS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TERPENES;

MENTHA X PIPERITA;

EID: 80054760126     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111558108     Document Type: Article

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