Terpenoid Biosynthesis

Plant Metabolism and Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 217-240

  Ro, Dae Kyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

'petrochemical substitutes'; 'turpentine substitutes'; Gene Clusters in Terpenoid Metabolism; Mechanistic Aspects of Terpenoid Biogenesis; Metabolic Engineering of Terpenoid Metabolism; Terpenoid Biosynthesis; Terpenoid Diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887377159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119991311.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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