Improving carbon fixation pathways

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 337-344

  Ducat, Daniel C ^a,b   Silver, Pamela A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON FIXATION; ELECTROSYNTHESIS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CARBON CYCLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865289744     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.05.002     Document Type: Review

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