Engineering ascorbic acid biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis leaves by single and double gene transformation

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 451-457

  Zhou, Y ^a   Tao, Q C ^a   Wang, Z N ^a   Fan, R ^a   Li, Y ^a   Sun, X F ^a   Tang, K X ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GDP L galactose guanyltransferase; transgenic plants; vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84862807344     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10535-012-0119-x     Document Type: Article

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