Strategies for metabolic pathway engineering with multiple transgenes

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 21-31

  Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co transformation; Combinatorial transformation; Metabolic engineering; Operon; Plant biotechnology; Plastid transformation; Polycistronic transcript; Synthetic biology; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CROP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OPERON; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OPERON; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84883256774     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-013-0045-0     Document Type: Review

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