Functional characterization of proanthocyanidin pathway enzymes from tea and their application for metabolic engineering

Plant Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1103-1116

  Pang, Yongzhen ^b   Abeysinghe, I Sarath B ^b   He, Ji ^a   He, Xianzhi ^a   Huhman, David ^a   Mudith Mewan, K ^b   Sumner, Lloyd W ^a   Yun, Jianfei ^a   Dixon, Richard A ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b TEA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

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EID: 84874625215     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.212050     Document Type: Article

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