Genetic engineering of yellow betalain pigments beyond the species barrier

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nakatsuka, Takashi ^a,c   Yamada, Eri ^a   Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a   Imamura, Tomohiro ^a   Suzuki, Mariko ^b   Ozeki, Yoshihiro ^b   Tsujimura, Ikuko ^a   Saito, Misa ^a   Sakamoto, Yuichi ^a   Sasaki, Nobuhiro ^b   Nishihara, Masahiro ^a  

^a IWATE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETALAIN; PIGMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BETALAINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TOBACCO;

EID: 84879640423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01970     Document Type: Article

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