Learning from nature: New approaches to the metabolic engineering of plant defense pathways

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 320-328

  Jirschitzka, Jan ^a   Mattern, Derek Joseph ^a   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a   D'Auria, John Charles ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP RESISTANCE; FLAVOR AND FRAGRANCES; LEARNING FROM NATURES; NATURAL PLANTS; NEW APPROACHES; PATHWAY GENES; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSFORMATION EFFORT;

FLAVOR COMPOUNDS; PLANT CELL CULTURE; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

GENES;

ARTEMISININ; PROTEIN MYB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BHLH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WRKY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CROP PROTECTION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; UPREGULATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84874955245     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2012.10.014     Document Type: Review

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