Engineering industrial fatty acids in oilseeds

Frontiers in Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-332

  Snapp, Anna R ^a   Lu, Chaofu ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camelina; metabolic engineering; modified fatty acids; oilseeds; triacylglycerol biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CAMELINA;

EID: 84878173689     PISSN: 16747984     EISSN: 16747992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11515-012-1228-9     Document Type: Review

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