Classical Strain Improvement

Engineering Complex Phenotypes in Industrial Strains

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-33

  Crook, Nathan ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical strain engineering for improved phenotypes; Classical strain improvement; Classical, on hidden bases of complex phenotype display; Cost effective robotic and microfluidic systems; Natural genetic drift and large scale fermentations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886334966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118433034.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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