Gene Discovery and Metabolic Engineering in the Phenylpropanoid Pathway

Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 113-138

  Modolo, Luzia V ^a   Pang, Yongzhen ^a   Tian, Li ^a   Dixon, Richard A ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE DISCOVERY; PHENYLPROPANOID PATHWAYS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 84881496506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302400.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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